artful at rogers.com
artful at rogers.com
Tue Dec 19 20:27:52 CST 2006
Assume these two values in two rows in the table of interest: Andrei Pascal Arthur B. Fuller I need to parse out the surname. I can't just grab the characters following the first space, unless there is only one space. But if there are two spaces, then I need the trailing string following the second space. CHARINDEX( 'f', 'abcdefgh' ) returns 6 so that part is easy. How to find the second occurrence, if any? In fact, assuming really bizarre data, what I want is the string following the last space in the value. Even that may not work, given Portuguese and Spanish and French surnames, but for now I will live with that. Suppose an entry such as: Juan Carlos de la Vega I need to grab the string following the last space, in T-SQL syntax. Any ideas? TIA, Arthur