A simple solution
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with p as
(
select 'asdf1234' as Delivery_Site union all
select 'asdf 1234' union all
select ' asdf asdf ' union all
select ''
)
,TXT_INFO AS
(
SELECT
LTRIM(PP.Delivery_Site) AS Delivery_Site
,CHARINDEX(' ',PP.Delivery_Site) AS HAS_SPACE
,LEN(LTRIM(PP.Delivery_Site)) AS HAS_CHAR
FROM p PP
)
SELECT
CASE
WHEN TI.HAS_CHAR > 0 AND TI.HAS_SPACE > 0 THEN SUBSTRING(TI.Delivery_Site,1,CHARINDEX(' ',TI.Delivery_Site))
WHEN TI.HAS_CHAR > 0 AND TI.HAS_SPACE = 0 THEN TI.Delivery_Site
ELSE NULL
END AS FIRST_WORD
FROM TXT_INFO TI;
Results
FIRST_WORD
-----------
asdf1234
asdf
asdf
NULL