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abhas

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February 4, 2015 at 2:05 am

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Hi all,
I want to split full name into lastname,FirstName and middlename. Below is scenario:
Name : Pawar, Ramesh S.
Then I want to split as below:
LastName FirstName MidddleName
Pawar Ramesh S
i.e. Upto comma in a string it is last name, after comma till space it is a first name and after space it is a last name.
Please help.
Thanks
Abhas.

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Megha P SSCommitted Points: 1976 More actions · Answer 1

You can read below link article , split function DelimitedSplit8K is there.

http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Tally+Table/72993/

DECLARE @p_str varchar(max)

SET @p_str = 'Pawar, Ramesh S.'

SET @p_str= REPLACE(@p_str,',','')

SELECTpvtTable.[1] AS LastName,

pvtTable.[2] AS FirstName,

pvtTable.[3] AS MidddleName

FROM [dbo].[DelimitedSplit8K](@p_str,'')

PIVOT

(MAX(item)FOR ItemNumber IN ([1],[2],[3]))

As pvtTable

ChrisM@Work SSC Guru Points: 186127 More actions · Answer 2

SELECT

d.Fullname,

Lastname = LEFT(d.Fullname, pos1-2), -- -2 removes the comma, could use REPLACE

FirstName = SUBSTRING(d.Fullname, pos1+1, (pos2-pos1)-1),

MidddleName = SUBSTRING(d.Fullname,pos2+1,8000), -- could use REPLACE to remove period

x1.*, x2.* -- included for clarity

FROM (SELECT Fullname = 'Pawar, Ramesh S.') d

CROSS APPLY (SELECT pos1 = CHARINDEX(' ', Fullname, 1)) x1

CROSS APPLY (SELECT pos2 = CHARINDEX(' ', Fullname, pos1+1)) x2

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Lowell SSC Guru Points: 323518 More actions · Answer 3

It depends on if all the data is exactly formatted like the one example.

i'd lean more towards splitting the data, and not assuming there are three parts every time.

changing the select to have something without a first and second space in it gives a substring error function.

Msg 537, Level 16, State 2, Line 1
Invalid length parameter passed to the LEFT or SUBSTRING function.

SELECT

d.Fullname,

Lastname = LEFT(d.Fullname, pos1-2), -- -2 removes the comma, could use REPLACE

FirstName = SUBSTRING(d.Fullname, pos1+1, (pos2-pos1)-1),

MidddleName = SUBSTRING(d.Fullname,pos2+1,8000), -- could use REPLACE to remove period

x1.*, x2.* -- included for clarity

FROM (SELECT Fullname = 'Pawar, Ramesh S.' UNION ALL SELECT 'Damon, Matt') d

CROSS APPLY (SELECT pos1 = CHARINDEX(' ', Fullname, 1)) x1

CROSS APPLY (SELECT pos2 = CHARINDEX(' ', Fullname, pos1+1)) x2

this is what i think is a little better solution

/*--Results

Fullname Item Item Item

Pawar, Ramesh S. Pawar, Ramesh S.

Damon, Matt Damon, Matt NULL

Madonna Madonna NULL NULL

*/

SELECT

d.Fullname,

Lastname = x1.Item, -- -2 removes the comma, could use REPLACE

FirstName = x2.Item,

MidddleName = x3.Item -- could use REPLACE to remove period

--x1.*, x2.* -- included for clarity

FROM (SELECT Fullname = 'Pawar, Ramesh S.' UNION ALL SELECT 'Damon, Matt' UNION ALL SELECT 'Madonna') d

OUTER APPLY (SELECT Item FROM dbo.DelimitedSplit8K(Fullname,' ') WHERE ItemNumber = 1) x1

OUTER APPLY (SELECT Item FROM dbo.DelimitedSplit8K(Fullname,' ') WHERE ItemNumber = 2) x2

OUTER APPLY (SELECT Item FROM dbo.DelimitedSplit8K(Fullname,' ') WHERE ItemNumber = 3) x3

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Dwain Camps SSC Guru Points: 86958 More actions · Answer 4

Isn't this what PARSENAME is for?

WITH SampleData AS

(

SELECT Fullname = 'Pawar, Ramesh S.' UNION ALL SELECT 'Damon, Matt'

)

SELECT *

,LastName = REVERSE(PARSENAME(MyFullName, 1))

,FirstName = REVERSE(PARSENAME(MyFullName, 2))

,MiddleInitial = REVERSE(PARSENAME(MyFullName, 3))

FROM SampleData a

CROSS APPLY

(

SELECT MyFullName=REPLACE(REPLACE(REPLACE(REVERSE(FullName), '.', ''), ' ', '.'), ',', '')

) b;

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