Hi Edwin,
On Wed, 2024-05-22 at 16:01 +1000, Edwin Humphries wrote:
Hi all
I need to copy the first word from an existing field and place it
into a
new field. Is there a way to do that autoagically?
This might work for you, assuming the field with the text is called
SELECT `YourTextField`, SUBSTR( `YourTextfield`, 1, LOCATE( ' ',
`YourTextfield` ) - 1 ) `FirstWord` FROM `YourTableName`
You can generate this in the query Design View, by just adding an extra
column with
SUBSTR( `YourTextField`, 1, LOCATE( ' ', `YourTextfield` ) - 1 )
and, say, FirstWord as Alias.
The LOCATE function finds the position of the first space in the field.
The position less 1 is the LENGTH required by the SUBSTR function.
The experts may have an opinion on this.
Cheers
Harvey
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