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Moogle
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Hi,

I need some help or advice on how to solve a difficult issue, please.

Image some data looks like this:

KEY | TEXT
------------------
1 | "\value 1\value 2\"
2 | "\value 1\value 2\value 3\"

I need to pull the key based on filtering a known value against the LAST value in the text string. In this example I would filter on value 2 for the first row and value 3 for the second row.

I think some combination of functions that let me start at the right, find the second slash's position, and then grabs everything to the right of it, minus one character for the last slash. To me, this is a scary prospect, but I know some of you fine people can make text strings dance around and do backflips. Please help, if you can.

Cheers,

Joey
WF 7.6.5
SQL Server 2000
IIS 6
Windows Server 2003

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Hi JG,

I appreciate that you are a fan of brevity, so...

THX

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