MS Access: Take all characters before the second space
I'm working in MS Access. I have a field of names. Some of them have three names (their first, middle, and last). How would I write a query to extract all characters before the second space so that I will be left with just their first and middle name?
If I have a name like John Joe Doe, I just want John Joe portion
Any help would be appreciated. Thank You.
Nick
You can use InStrRev to find the position of the last space and then use Mid to extract the first 2 names. Open the query design and inside one of the field, you can click the expression builder to add InStrRev and Mid functions.
Assuming that your table has 2 fields, ID and UserName. Open the query designer and add this table. Then add both of the 2 fields to the query and add a third field as NewName. Below is how it should look like on the query design. Hope this is clear.
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