Posted by Erland Sommarskog on 03/21/06 00:49

(chudson007@hotmail.com) writes:
> I've just encountered a little problam.
> Contrary to the criteria I provided earlier there are cells which end
> with the TranID, like for example
>
> OtherID=1638256785230&TranID=12345
>
> How do I edit the script to capture these records?

Here is a query, a little different from figitals:

SELECT convert(int, str2)
FROM (SELECT str2 =
CASE WHEN str1 LIKE '%[^0-9]%'
THEN substring(str1, 1, patindex('%[^0-9]%', str1) - 1)
ELSE str1
END
FROM (SELECT str1 = substring(str,
charindex('TranID=', str) + len('TranId='),
len(str))
FROM QueryStringTest) AS a) AS b

By using nested derived tables, it is possibly easier to see the
solution step for step. Or it's more confusing. :-)


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