sql with substring to a special character with sqlite

Question

I have values with following format in a table in sqlite:

AAAAAAAAAA#BBBBBBBBBB

AAAA#BBBBBBBBBB

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA#BBBBBBBBBBB

I would lik

Answer 1

Never used sqlite but something along the lines of substr(yourfieldname, 1, instr(yourfieldname, '#') -1) should do it.

Answer 2

Please try:

SUBSTR(col,1,INSTR(col,'#') -1)

Can be found at: http://www.sqlite.org/lang_corefunc.html