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Instr Command and the Quote

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I need to pull the characters that are left of a specific character in an Access Query. Here's the code I currently have.

Left([Desc],InStr([Desc],""))

The problem is, the value that I'm looking for in the string is a quote ( " ). How do I do that.
Nov 1 '07 #1
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Rabbit
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  1. """"  This will return a double quote.
  2. '"'  This will return a double quote as well.
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Nov 1 '07 #2
missinglinq
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Actually, you'd need

Left([Desc],InStr([Desc],"""")-1)


to pull everything to the left of the first quotation mark.

This code will bomb, though, if there is no quotation mark in [Desc]. Will there always be a quotation mark in the field?

Linq ;0)>
Nov 2 '07 #3

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