replace last comma(,) in s string

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replace last comma(,) in s string

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paishwarya
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4 Posts

Posted - 2010-11-01 : 12:11:58

I have a name column that has commas between the last n first name and few fields have a comma at the end also. How do I replace the last comma in the string to null. Eg:
HERRERA,MARITZA,
LOPEZ,DANNY
OROURKE,NICHOLAS,

I want to remove only if there is a comma at the end of the string.

visakh16
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52326 Posts

Posted - 2010-11-01 : 12:18:59

[code]
SELECT CASE WHEN RIGHT(Name,1)=',' THEN LEFT(Name,LEN(Name)-1) ELSE Name END
FROM Table
[/code]

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paishwarya
Starting Member

4 Posts

Posted - 2010-11-01 : 14:33:40

Thanks for your response. But I wanted to do an update on the database to remove this comma.

madhivanan
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22864 Posts

Posted - 2010-11-02 : 03:30:26

update table
set name=LEFT(Name,LEN(Name)-1)
where RIGHT(Name,1)=','

Madhivanan

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