How show only x number of characters from a text in SQL?

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I have a string, for example: @text='Here, is my text'. I want to show only first 10 characters without break the words.
I want to show for @limit=10: @text='Here, is' not @text='Here, is m'. How can i do this in a field from a table for example?

Thank you!

Posted 6-Nov-14 1:18am

feliciana

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King Fisher 6-Nov-14 7:30am

so, what's you Result ?

Rajesh waran 6-Nov-14 7:49am

what you are expecting,your question is not clear. your limit size is 10 but you are expecting output as only 8. here, what do you mean by "without break the words"

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Solution 1

Try this substring inSql

SQL

declare @limit int=10;
declare @text nvarchar(max)='Here, is my text';
select substring(@text,1,@limit)

Result :

'Here, is m'

Posted 6-Nov-14 1:31am

King Fisher

Updated 6-Nov-14 1:32am

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feliciana 6-Nov-14 7:38am

I don't want to break words. For @limit=10 the result i want to be: @text='Here, is'

King Fisher 6-Nov-14 7:43am

what do you mean break Words ? :)

feliciana 6-Nov-14 8:03am

I want the words to be complete. If i have @limit=10 characters from @text='Here, is my text', the first 10 characters will be 'Here, is m'. So in this case I want to show only 'Here, is'.

King Fisher 6-Nov-14 8:22am

Then make you limit as 8.

feliciana 6-Nov-14 8:32am

You're right for this example, but if i have in a table a column that contain text with different size and words with different size, how can i do that in this case. This is my problem.

Solution 2

You've got few functions to get the part of string:
LEFT[^]
RIGHT[^]
SUBSTRING[^]

If you want to find a character, to be able to get 'limit', use CHARINDEX[^] function togheter with one of above functions. See PATINDEX[^] too.

SQL

DECLARE @t = 'Here is my Text'
SELECT LEFT(@t, CHARINDEX(' ', @t)) AS CuttedText

Posted 6-Nov-14 1:44am

Maciej Los

Updated 6-Nov-14 1:52am

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Shweta N Mishra · Accepted Answer · 2014-11-06T02:33:00

Solution 3

This should work for you.

SQL

Declare @text Nvarchar(500)='Here, is my text'
Declare @limit int=10
Declare @CuttText Nvarchar(500)
select @CuttText=Substring(@text,1,@limit)
Declare @Spaceindex int,@Reverse Nvarchar(100)
set @Reverse=Reverse(@CuttText)
select @Spaceindex=Charindex(' ',@Reverse)

select Reverse(Substring(@Reverse,@SpaceIndex+1,LEN(@CuttText)))

Posted 6-Nov-14 2:33am

Shweta N Mishra

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feliciana 6-Nov-14 8:37am

Thank you, this is what i want, it's working.