Hi Edwin, On Wed, 2024-05-22 at 16:01 +1000, Edwin Humphries wrote: > Hi all > > I need to copy the first word from an existing field and place it > into a > new field. Is there a way to do that autoagically?
This might work for you, assuming the field with the text is called SELECT `YourTextField`, SUBSTR( `YourTextfield`, 1, LOCATE( ' ', `YourTextfield` ) - 1 ) `FirstWord` FROM `YourTableName` You can generate this in the query Design View, by just adding an extra column with SUBSTR( `YourTextField`, 1, LOCATE( ' ', `YourTextfield` ) - 1 ) and, say, FirstWord as Alias. The LOCATE function finds the position of the first space in the field. The position less 1 is the LENGTH required by the SUBSTR function. The experts may have an opinion on this. Cheers Harvey -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? https://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: https://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ Privacy Policy: https://www.documentfoundation.org/privacy
