How to return a partial string based on a particular character?

Hi,
I am looking through books on-line but an not finding what I am looking for.
In my stored proc, I am being passed a varchar field, 20 long. It looks
something like, '103098-1'
I need to split the characters on the left side of the '-' into one field,
and the characters on the right side of the '-' into another field.
How do I do this?
Thanks,
Steve
This is how I did it, does this make sense, or is there an easier way?
Declare @.strOrder varchar(20)
set @.strOrder = '38372-1'
set @.charIndex = CHARINDEX('-', @.strOrder)
set @.Orderin = CONVERT(int, LEFT(@.strOrder, @.charIndex - 1))
Set @.linein = CONVERT(int, SUBSTRING(@.strOrder, @.charIndex + 1, 20 -
@.charIndex))
Thanks again.
"SteveInBeloit" wrote:

> Hi,
> I am looking through books on-line but an not finding what I am looking for.
> In my stored proc, I am being passed a varchar field, 20 long. It looks
> something like, '103098-1'
> I need to split the characters on the left side of the '-' into one field,
> and the characters on the right side of the '-' into another field.
> How do I do this?
> Thanks,
> Steve
|||yes, it could be done in a single line though.
Declare @.strOrder varchar(20)
declare @.left varchar(10)
declare @.right varchar(10)
set @.strOrder = '38372-1'
select @.left = left(@.strOrder, CHARINDEX('-', @.strOrder)-1),
@.right=substring(@.strOrder,
charindex('-',@.strOrder)+1,len(@.strOrder)-charindex('-',@.strOrder)+1)
print @.left
print @.right
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"SteveInBeloit" <SteveInBeloit@.discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> This is how I did it, does this make sense, or is there an easier way?
> Declare @.strOrder varchar(20)
> set @.strOrder = '38372-1'
> set @.charIndex = CHARINDEX('-', @.strOrder)
> set @.Orderin = CONVERT(int, LEFT(@.strOrder, @.charIndex - 1))
> Set @.linein = CONVERT(int, SUBSTRING(@.strOrder, @.charIndex + 1, 20 -
> @.charIndex))
> Thanks again.
> "SteveInBeloit" wrote:
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