How to get the characters before and after a dot value in SQL server ?

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How to get the characters before and after a dot value in sql server ?

For Eg : If my string is [NTP-228].Test i want to get [NTP-228] & Test as separate values.

What I have tried:

SQL

SET @extension = SUBSTRING(@originalstring, CHARINDEX('.', @originalstring-1), 999)

SELECT @extension

bUT NOT WORKING. I want to get the string before and after.

Posted 27-Apr-16 3:28am

ranio

Updated 27-Apr-16 3:45am

PIEBALDconsult

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ZurdoDev 27-Apr-16 9:35am

You are on the right track.

PIEBALDconsult 27-Apr-16 9:47am

Move your first closing parenthesis.
And you should always include the error messages you receive.

SQL is not good at such text manipulation; you may be better off doing that outside the database; perhaps _before_ you store the values.

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Nigam,Ashish · Answer 1 · 2016-04-27T03:37:00

Solution 1

Please run this query:

SQL

declare @extension varchar(100),
		@Code varchar(500),
		@originalstring varchar(100)='[NTP-228].Test'
SET @extension = SUBSTRING(@originalstring, CHARINDEX('.', @originalstring)+1, 999)
set @Code=SUBSTRING(@originalstring,0, CHARINDEX('.', @originalstring))
select @extension,@Code

Ashish

Posted 27-Apr-16 3:37am

Nigam,Ashish

Updated 27-Apr-16 3:46am

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ZurdoDev 27-Apr-16 9:54am

This is easier to read but the problem is I am sure the OP wants to use it in a Select statement for all rows in a table. This approach only works for 1 row at a time.

Nigam,Ashish 27-Apr-16 9:56am

If he want to use this in a table then he can use alias in place of variables with select statement.

ranio 27-Apr-16 23:41pm

I just want this for a single case.
Another case is if the OriginatorString could come as NTP-228 or [NTP-228]
On all occasions it must come as [NTP-228] always.