Question

Please help me get the substring of the following text.

I would like to be able to extract the text

PilotCube_2Year

FROM

/content/folder[@name='Reporting Packages']/package[@name='PiotCube_2Year']

I am using SQL Server 2008

I have tried substring and Charindex but could not really get the string PilotCube_2Year

Answer 1

Assuming package[@name= is what tells you where the string you are looking for is, you could try something like this:

DECLARE @toSearch  AS VARCHAR(100) = '/content/folder[@name=''Reporting Packages'']/package[@name=''PiotCube_2Year'']'
DECLARE @toFind AS VARCHAR(100)  = 'package[@name='
DECLARE @start AS INT = CHARINDEX(@toFind , @toSearch ) + LEN(@toFind) + 1

SELECT SUBSTRING(@toSearch,                              --expression
            @start,                                      --start
            CHARINDEX(']' , @toSearch, @start) - @start - 1) --length

Result

PiotCube_2Year