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macke Newbie Joined: 19 Mar 2009 Location: United Kingdom Online Status: Offline Posts: 14	Topic: leftmost characters Posted: 06 Jul 2010 at 1:19am
	I wish to display the leftmost characters in a string up to a particular character. i.e. HT-236: LASER DISPLAY BOARD or 20636789: APPLICATOR PLASTIC I need to take all the characters up to the colon. How can I do this? macke
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Emir_W Senior Member Joined: 25 Apr 2010 Online Status: Offline Posts: 228	Posted: 06 Jul 2010 at 2:08am
	try this: left({tbl.field},instr({tbl.field},":")-1) hope it help.
	Emir W
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rahulwalawalkar Senior Member Joined: 08 Jun 2007 Location: United Kingdom Online Status: Offline Posts: 731	Posted: 06 Jul 2010 at 3:11am
	Hi You can also try using sql, below is sample for specific col where you have :, you will need to select the cols you need for the report then create a view or stored procedure to extract the data for the report. Select CASE CHARINDEX(':', Table.ColName) WHEN 0 THEN '' ELSE left(Table.Colname, CHARINDEX(':', Table.colname)-1) END Cheers Rahul
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