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Asked: 2026-05-16T17:14:19+00:00

I’m trying to trim some info from a table. The column has a number

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I’m trying to trim some info from a table. The column has a number and then a word (e.g. 5 Apples). I just need the number so that I can sum the total of apples. I can’t use count because I need to go by the value (e.g. 5 Apples for one, 3 Apples for the other) and count will just return that there are 2 entries and not pull the 5 and 3.

I’ve tried using SUM but it doesn’t work either.

Can anyone help (Or point me to a tutorial) that will explain how I can trim/extract info from the columns value? I’ve been looking and have only been able to find how to trim spaces (Which would be nice if I could trim everything after spaces too, then I’d just be able to trim away after the number)

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  1. Editorial Team

    A combination of sum, cast, substring, charindex will do the work i think:

    Find the first occurence of whitespace, take the substring of the column until the first whitespace position, cast it as an integer and sum it up.

    SELECT SUM(CAST(SUBSTRING(yourColumn, 1, CHARINDEX(' ', yourColumn) -1) AS INT)) 
FROM yourTable

    Edit: first char is 1 in substring

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