I have a column of data I've imported form a lotus notes database which consists of a contacted address field. The items in the address are separated by ASCII (13), ASCII (10)
What the easiest way to split this address up in to separate columns?
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I use something like this in my projects. Unfortunatly I don't have my optimized version at hand but I coded it down quickly. This might get you started...
CREATE FUNCTION fx_Split
(
@text varchar(max),
@splitChar char(1)
)
RETURNS
@Result TABLE
(
RowIndex int identity(1,1),
SplitText varchar(max)
)
AS
BEGIN
DECLARE @index int SET @index = 0
DECLARE @SplitText varchar(max) SET @SplitText = ''
DECLARE @TempText varchar(max) SET @SplitText = ''
SET @index = CHARINDEX(@splitChar, @text)
SET @TempText = @text
WHILE(@index > 0)
BEGIN
INSERT INTO @Result VALUES (SUBSTRING(@TempText, 1, @index-1))
SET @TempText = SUBSTRING(@TempText, @index + 1, LEN(@TempText))
SET @index = CHARINDEX(@splitChar, @TempText)
END
INSERT INTO @Result VALUES (@TempText)
RETURN
END
GO
select * from dbo.fx_Split ('asdf,qwer,asfegqgr,qweqwefe,qwf4ggrr,qfasdglsdfg', ',')
