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Position of a "."

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lakers8175

lakers8175

IS-IT--Management
Sep 18, 2001
67
US
I am trying to get all the characters to the left of a field up the the ".". In a query can anyone help.
Example.
368.
17.
145678.
Result
368
17
145978
 
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Left("[FieldName]", InStr(1, "[FieldName]", ".", 1) - 1)
 
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