How do I replace a substring of a string before a specific character?

Question

Table Email:

Values:

[email protected]
[email protected]
[email protected]

I want to replace the string before @ with test.

Result:

[email protected]
[email protected]
[email protected]

How do I use substringing and replace based on a character in the string?

Solution 1

You don't even need to use substring or replace, you can use this:

SELECT 'test' + RIGHT(email, charindex('@', REVERSE(email)))
FROM YourTable

You can test it out with this:

DECLARE @email nvarchar(50)
SET @email = '[email protected]'
PRINT 'test' + RIGHT(@email, charindex('@', REVERSE(@email)))

Solution 2

declare @t table(email varchar(30))
insert @t values('[email protected]'),
                ('[email protected]'),
                ('[email protected]') 

select stuff(email, 1, charindex('@', email), 'Test@') 
from @t

Result:

[email protected]
[email protected]
[email protected]

Solution 3

You can use SUBSTRING and CHARINDEX:

UPDATE Email set email = 
    'test' + SUBSTRING(email, CHARINDEX('@',email), LEN(email))

Fiddle: http://sqlfiddle.com/#!3/0face/6/0

Solution 4

You could

select 'test' + substring(fld, charindex('@', fld), len(fld))

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Comments

[t-clausen.dk]

@Testifier did you try all the solutions ?

[Tim Schmelter]

REVERSE is one of the less performant string functions in TSQL.

[Travis Peterson]

I used this with LEFT to remove any trailing spaces at the end of a string. It worked perfectly. Even strings like "this " returned "this". Thanks for your solution.