Q1-PatIndex Pattern Regex: How to match a dot followed by a space? Q2 -PatIndex Pattern Regex: How to match a dot followed by two spaces?.
I want to put it in here to get only the GOAL content
Declare @Temp Table(Data VarChar(1000))
Insert Into @Temp Values('Lalallaa GOAL: This is the truthmeow. Meow. ')
Insert Into @Temp Values('Lalallaa GOAL: This is the truth. Meowrwr. ')
Insert Into @Temp Values('lALALLA GOAL: This is the truth. Meowrwr. NOTINCLUDED: WAWAW')
Select Left(
SubString(Data,PATINDEX ('%GOAL%',Data), 8000) ,
PatIndex('regex here', SubString(Data, PatIndex('%[GOAL]%', Data), 8000))-1)
From @Temp
Expected Output
GOAL: This is the truthmeow.
GOAL: This is the truth.
GOAL: This is the truth.
I used Shnugos answer on the real DB and I encountered an error : Illegal name character
I checked the data type , it is ntext
What about this:
Short explanation: Replacing .
with xml-tags will "split" this string in as many "parts" as there are in your string. The XML-value method will take the first item's value which is the string up to the first .
Declare @Temp Table(Data VarChar(1000))
Insert Into @Temp Values('Lalallaa GOAL: This is the truthmeow. Meow. ')
Insert Into @Temp Values('Lalallaa GOAL: This is the truth. Meowrwr. ')
Insert Into @Temp Values('lALALLA GOAL: This is the truth. Meowrwr. NOTINCLUDED: WAWAW')
Select CAST('<x>' + REPLACE(SubString(Data,PATINDEX ('%GOAL%',Data), 8000),'. ','</x><x>') + '</x>' AS XML).value('x[1]','varchar(max)')
From @Temp