SELECT from 3rd comma in string

Question

I have the following string:

bzip2,1,668,sometext,foo,bar

How can I SELECT only sometext,foo,bar? The length of the string pre

Answer 1

try this:

Do a substring from 3rd comma to the end of the string.. To find the 3 commas , I am using charindex() function 3 times

  declare @str varchar(50)='bzip2,1,668,some,text'

  select substring(@str,
  CHARINDEX(',',@str,CHARINDEX(',',@str,CHARINDEX(',',@str,1)+1)+1)+1,
  LEN(@str)-CHARINDEX(',',@str,CHARINDEX(',',@str,CHARINDEX(',',@str,1)+1)+1))

result:

some,text