How To Get Values From Column With Trailing Spaces

Jul 23, 2013

Performing security audit using command to retrieve data from Active Director about security groups and drop results into local tbl for analysis.

EXEC xp_cmdshell 'net group "AnalyticsDev" /domain'

Problem is the col created to store result is varchar(1000) and can hold 1-3 values (loginIDs) per row with lots of trailing/white space.

E.g. (EmpID101, EmpID250 EmpID10)

Is there a technique to extract the needed value (loginIDs) from col?

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(No column name)
709485""
040898A"
709502""
041382""
709503""

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Code Snippet
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(

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