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How to pull Year from varchar field

  • March 1, 2023 at 2:49 pm

    #4155483

    Hello,

    I have a field where I want to pull the year from.  The field unfortunately is an "Intelligent field" and the year is in the middle.  For example, the format is text - year - text.  Is there a way I can extract the year from the field?

    Here is some sample code:

     CREATE TABLE #t (ID int IDENTITY, field varchar(100))
     INSERT INTO #t (field) VALUES ('test1 - 2021 - test1')
     INSERT INTO #t (field) VALUES ('test2 - 2022 - test2')
     INSERT INTO #t (field) VALUES ('test3 - 2023 - test3')

     SELECT * FROM #t

    Many thanks in advance for any assitance!

  • March 1, 2023 at 2:53 pm

    #4155484 

     SELECT field, SUBSTRING(field, PATINDEX('%[2][0-9][0-9][0-9]%', field), 4) AS year
     FROM #t

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