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column1
\\abc\tri\eds\rf1\edr\4ed
\\f.d\tri\ef\poe
\\ghi0j\tri\gf\rf\k\hg\ose

' ' '

i got some rows like that in a column

now i want to get the result set like

\\abc\tri\eds
\\f.d\tri\ef\
\\ghij\tri\gf

simply from first '\' to end of 4th '\'

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In this week's episode of Horrible Code I Have Written For StackOverflow...

SELECT
    SUBSTRING(column1, 1,
        CHARINDEX('\', column1,
            CHARINDEX('\', column1,
                CHARINDEX('\', column1, 3) + 1) + 1))
FROM
    TableName
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