How to get the first line of a multiline text field saved in database?

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I have a multi-line textbox whose text is saved into database. Now I need to show only the first line of the text to be shown in a datagridview. How can I do it?

Posted 12-Jan-13 3:45am

priyamtheone

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string Text = TextBox.Text.Split(new char[] { '\n' })[0];

Posted 12-Jan-13 18:32pm

Subrata.In

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Mayank Topiwala 13-Jan-13 0:48am

+5

priyamtheone 13-Jan-13 9:43am

@_Subrata_: May be I wasn't clear but I wanted to save the multi-line text from the textbox to the database and later, obtain just the first line of it from the database.

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Create a column in your table and insert the first line of the multiline text into it then bind your datagridview to this new column.

Posted 12-Jan-13 3:48am

Mehdi Gholam

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Wendelius · Accepted Answer · 2013-01-12T04:53:00

Solution 2

One way is to use CHARINDEX[^] to find the new line and use that to for SUBSTRING[^].

So something like

SQL

SELECT SUBSTRING( MyColumn, 1, CHARINDEX( CHAR(10), MyColumn)) ...

Posted 12-Jan-13 4:53am

Wendelius

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priyamtheone 13-Jan-13 9:46am

@Mika: Exactly! I figured out the same way while fiddling around. But Thanks for the help anyways. Thumbs up!

Wendelius 13-Jan-13 10:18am

You're welcome :)