SSIS How to get part of a string by separator

Question

I need an SSIS expression to get the left part of a string before the separator, and then put the new string in a new column. I checked in derived column, it seems no such e

Answer 1

of course you can:

just configure your derived columns like this:

Here is the expression to make your life easier:

SUBSTRING(name,1,FINDSTRING(name,"-",1) - 1)

FYI, the second "1" means to get the first occurrence of the string "-"

EDIT: expression to deal with string without "-"

FINDSTRING(name,"-",1) != 0 ? (SUBSTRING(name,1,FINDSTRING(name,"-",1) - 1)) : name