Derived Column condition to get string between two Hyphens

Derived Column condition to get string between two Hyphens

Asked By: Catalyst
Originally Asked On: 2014-01-02 12:02:48
Asked Via: stackoverflow

I need an SSIS expression to get the left part of a string before the separator, and then put the new string in a new column. I checked in derived column, it seems no such expressions. “Substring” could only return string part with fixed length. For example, with separator string ‘-‘ :

input : MQ-240030-Black
expected output : 240030

my attempt :

SUBSTRING(name,1,FINDSTRING(name,"-",1) - 1)

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BhupeshC’s answer to

Derived Column condition to get string between two Hyphens

Change the Expression to
SUBSTRING(name,FINDSTRING(name,"-",1) + 1,FINDSTRING(name,"-",2) - FINDSTRING(name,"-",1) - 1)

EDITED

substring name from the index after the first occurrence of hyphen (FINDSTRING(name,"-",1) + 1) to the index before the second occurrence of hyphen (FINDSTRING(name,"-",2) - FINDSTRING(name,"-",1) - 1)

EDITED AGAIN

To get “BLACK” as output

substring name from the index after the second occurrence of hyphen (FINDSTRING(name,"-",2) + 1) to the last index (LEN(name)) So, it will be

UPPER(SUBSTRING(name,FINDSTRING(name,"-",2) + 1,LEN(name))) 

I included UPPER() as I see the result string in Upper cases.

Justin’s answer to

Derived Column condition to get string between two Hyphens

Code:

SUBSTRING(name,FINDSTRING(name,"-",1) + 1,FINDSTRING(name,"-",2) - FINDSTRING(name,"-",1) - 1)

Result:

name            name2
MQ-240030-Black 240030

Of course, you should really check out the original question.

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