Help in substring function

hi friends,
my query is like below.
select SUBSTRING('one thousand one hundread one reuppee only asasasas aaaaa bbbbb',1,60)
and my output of above query is below..
'one thousand one hundread one reuppee only asasasas aaaaa bb'
but i want display only up to 'one thousand one hundread one reuppee only asasasas aaaaa'
because my bbbbb it not complete so i want to find the space before 'bbbbb' and diplay up to 'aaaaa'

One way, if looking for the first space from the right is also fine:
SQL> -- generating sample string
SQL> with t as (
2 select 'one thousand one hundread one reuppee only asasasas aaaaa bbbbb' str from dual
3 )
4 --
5 -- actual query:
6 --
7 select substr( str
8               , 1
9               , instr( str, chr(32), -1, 1)-1
10               )
11 from   t;
SUBSTR(STR,1,INSTR(STR,CHR(32),-1,1)-1)
one thousand one hundread one reuppee only asasasas aaaaa
1 row selected

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