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Stripping Data

  • January 19, 2007 at 11:05 am

    #194003

    Hi Everyone,

    I have some data that I need to strip some data from. It is a series of numbers and letters that I need only the first 4 and last 4 Alphnumeric characters from.

    Is there a query I can use to strip the first 4 and last 4 characters from the data and place it in another field?

    Thanks in advance for your help...

    David

  • January 19, 2007 at 1:24 pm

    #684427

    this might get you started; LEFT,RIGHT and SUBSTRING functions can be used to get parts of strings.

    note how im checking to make sure that the field is at least 8 characters...that may or may not be correct in your situation.

    SELECT LEFT(SOMEFIELD,4) + RIGHT(SOMEFIELD,4) FROM SOMETABLE WHERE SOMEFIELD IS NOT NULL AND LEN(SOMEFIELD) >=8

    Lowell

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