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Help with Select statement Substring

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ChewDoggie

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Gmorning All,

I have a field in my sql db that contains data that might look like this:

System="Yes" testName="thisTestName" foran="twenty"

and I'm looking for a way to grab the string thisTestName from the field. Obviously, thisTestName is an example. The value could be any length of characters. I suspect I'll use SubString function but don't know how to determine where the first quote mark and the last quote mark appears after testName=.

Chew



10% of your life is what happens to you. 90% of your life is how you deal with it.
 
Have a look at the CHARINDEX function and use it to find testName, so that it can be used as the start point for another CHARINDEX to find the quotation marks.

soi là, soi carré
 
Thank you !

10% of your life is what happens to you. 90% of your life is how you deal with it.
 
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