Question

I have an SQL Server 2008 database with a table that has a column Data that contains values like this:

Hello\How\Are\You"

Each string in that column has 4 blocks (ie. 3 slash bars)

Question:

How can I extract, using TSQL, the 3rd value (in this case Are) from that column ?

Note that I just care about the 3rd value.

Answer 1

You can use parsename and
replace.

declare @S varchar(30) = 'Hello\How\Are\You'

select parsename(replace(@S, '\', '.'), 2)