removing characters from field in MS Access database table

Question

Using MS Access 2010. I have a field in a table that contains windows path names surrounded by quotes, like this

\"C:\\My Documents\\Photos\\img1.jpg\"
\"C:\         


        

Answer 1

The solution with REPLACE already mentioned by others works, but removes ALL quotes, even if they are in the middle of the string.

If you only want to remove quotes at the beginning or at the end, but leave quotes in the middle of the string as they are, you can do it with the following two queries:

Remove first character if it's a quote:

update YourTable
set YourField = right(YourField, len(YourField) - 1)
where left(YourField, 1) = '"'

Remove last character if it's a quote:

update YourTable
set YourTable = left(YourField, len(YourField) - 1)
where right(YourField, 1) = '"'