Question

I have the following string:

bzip2,1,668,sometext,foo,bar

How can I SELECT only sometext,foo,bar? The length of the string preceding the 3rd comma may differ and there may be commas within sometext,foo,bar.

I’d like this in as concise code as possible, i.e. preferably 1 line of code, no loops. But feel free to post any solution you think of.

Answer 1

I just figured out something that works:

declare @v varchar(max) = 'bzip2,1,668,sometext'
select substring(@v, CHARINDEX(',', @v, CHARINDEX(',', @v, CHARINDEX(',', @v)+1)+1)+1, len(@v))