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Quote dibblejon Replybullet Topic: Left word in string
     Posted: 19 Sep 2012 at 5:53am
Apologies if this has already been asked before.....
 
How do I display the first word in a string
 
For example
 
John Smith
Peter Bloggs
James Bond
 
I want to display
 
John
Peter
James
 
Any help as always will be great, thanks
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Quote DBlank Replybullet Posted: 19 Sep 2012 at 7:13am
try
left({table.field},instr({table.field}," "))
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