Question : How to just grab the specifc text from T-SQL?

Hi, I'm writing a query and need to just grab a section of the string. Can anyone help?

For example: SELECT ACCOUNTNAME FROM ACCOUNT

Return results sample: 10294 - Mayberry

I need the return result to be just "Mayberry".  I thought of using substring, but it appears that it can only use a set number of values for starting and ending point. I just need it to grab the account name AFTER the '-' symbol, that's what gets me.

Thanks!

Answer : How to just grab the specifc text from T-SQL?

Use CHARINDEX to find the starting point for the SUBSTRING function:

SELECT SUBSTRING(AccountName, CHARINDEX('-', AccountName) + 1, (LEN(AccountName) - (CHARINDEX('-', AccountName) + 1)) AS DelimitedAcctName FROM ACCOUNT

hth

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