Question

I have column that contains strings. The strings in that column look like this:

FirstString/SecondString/ThirdString

I need to parse this so I have two values:

Value 1: FirstString/SecondString Value 2: ThirdString

I could have actually longer strings but I always nee it seperated like [string1/string2/string3/…][stringN]

What I need to end up with is this:

Column1: [string1/string2/string3/etc….] Column2: [stringN]

I can’t find anyway in access to do this. Any suggestions? Do i need regular expressions? If so, is there a way to do this in the query designer?

Update: Both of the expressions give me this error: ‘The expression you entered contains invalid syntax, or you need to enclose your text data in quotes.’

expr1: Left( [Property] , InStrRev( [Property] , '/') - 1), Mid( [Property] , InStrRev( [Property] , '/') + 1)  expr1: mid( [Property] , 1, instr( [Property] , '/', -1)) , mid( [Property] , instr( [Property] , '/', -1)+1, length( [Property] )) 

Answer 1

In a query, use the following two expressions as columns:

Left(col, InStrRev(col, '/') - 1), Mid(col, InStrRev(col, '/') + 1)  

col is your column.

If in VBA, use the following:

last_index= InStrRev(your_string, '/')  first_part= Left$(your_string, last_index - 1) last_part= Mid$(your_string, last_index + 1)