title: How to find first occurrence of one of a sequence of characters in T-SQL
body: <p>I would like to write a simple query to find the first occurrence of either ',' or ';' in a string within T-SQL. Is there any easy way to do this? </p>
  
  <p>In other databases I would use a regular expression such as [,;] but these aren't available in T-SQL.</p>
  
  <p>The only solution I can think of is to have a long list of nested if .. else statements but that doesn't appeal.</p>