IT Answers » RTRIM http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/itanswers Tue, 21 May 2013 00:35:33 +0000 en-US hourly 1 Trimming Values with SQL Server Express 2005 http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/itanswers/trimming-values/ http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/itanswers/trimming-values/#comments Mon, 28 Jun 2010 18:40:58 +0000 Eabouzeid I have a column whose values range from 10-15 characters and whose last 7 characters I would like to get rid of. Can someone please show me how to do this? I thought it would be RTRIM but that didn’t work for me. I can’t use LEFT or RIGHT before the column because the column length is variable. I would appreciate any help. Thanks much. So here is an example of what I want to accomplish below:    

PROBLEM EXAMPLE: 12345678.HELLO
FIXED EXAMPLE: 12345678
]]> http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/itanswers/trimming-values/feed/ 1 UE SUBSTR or RTRIM? http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/itanswers/ue-substr-or-rtrim/ http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/itanswers/ue-substr-or-rtrim/#comments Thu, 07 May 2009 05:21:51 +0000 Antgaudi I need to get cities’ name from a format like this:

Los Angeles, CA
New Orleans, LA

etc..
I’ve tried:
substr(a.air_location, -4)

but that gives me the opposite…”, LA”

Any suggestions?
Thanks.

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