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Extracting Data 2

Extracting Data 2

Extracting Data 2

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Hey Everyone,

I have a field called Name.  In this field there is First Name,  Last Name  and middle initial.  The field is 22 characters long.  Each Portion of  this field is separated by a blank space.  Ex:  Mary K Jones  or Micheal J Jordan Jr What I need to do is extract the First Name only from this field using a query.   I am not sure what type of syntax to use to do this since all the First Names are different lengths.  Is there some way that I can say stop at the first blank space and give me the results?

Please Help!!!

Neaka

RE: Extracting Data 2

you can use Instr() to find the space, and then once you know where the space is, use Left() to take the characters up to the space.  See the VB help for syntax & examples.


RE: Extracting Data 2

The VBA function split() will separate all the words and will put them into array.

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