String Segregation

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String Segregation

vs.satheesh

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July 18, 2018 at 7:15 am

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Dear all
In my table one column i have records in following formets
mat201
mat202
sci12
science203
In this above value i want to segregate two different column like a
MAT 201
MAT 202
SCI 12
SCIENCE 201
Please help me above result

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Luis Cazares SSC Guru Points: 183706 More actions · Answer 1

vs.satheesh - Wednesday, July 18, 2018 7:15 AM
Dear all
In my table one column i have records in following formets
mat201
mat202
sci12
science203
In this above value i want to segregate two different column like a
MAT 201
MAT 202
SCI 12
SCIENCE 201
Please help me above result

You could try to do it with substring and patindex. It's not that hard to do.

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SGT_squeequal SSCertifiable Points: 7167 More actions · Answer 2

select upper (substring(col,0,patindex('%[0-9]%',col))+' '+substring(col,patindex('%[0-9]%',@col,99))
from your table

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sgmunson SSC Guru Points: 110640 More actions · Answer 3

SGT_squeequal - Wednesday, July 18, 2018 7:33 AM
select upper (substring(col,0,patindex('%[0-9]%',col))+' '+substring(col,patindex('%[0-9]%',@col,99))
from your table

Almost, but not quite. OP is looking for separate columns, whereas your solution just adds a space in the middle.

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Lynn Pettis SSC Guru Points: 442467 More actions · Answer 4

Does this help?
DECLARE @TestTable TABLE ( DataCol VARCHAR(32) );

INSERT INTO @TestTable
VALUES
('mat201')
,('mat202')
,('sci12')
,('science203');

SELECT
[tt].[DataCol]
, PATINDEX('%[0-9]%',[tt].[DataCol])
, LEFT([tt].[DataCol],PATINDEX('%[0-9]%',[tt].[DataCol]) - 1)
, SUBSTRING([tt].[DataCol], PATINDEX('%[0-9]%',[tt].[DataCol]), DATALENGTH([tt].[DataCol]))
FROM @TestTable AS [tt];

SGT_squeequal SSCertifiable Points: 7167 More actions · Answer 5

sgmunson - Thursday, July 19, 2018 2:15 PM
SGT_squeequal - Wednesday, July 18, 2018 7:33 AM
select upper (substring(col,0,patindex('%[0-9]%',col))+' '+substring(col,patindex('%[0-9]%',@col,99))
from your table
Almost, but not quite. OP is looking for separate columns, whereas your solution just adds a space in the middle.

Arr yes, i was looking at his results and returning the data to match instead of splitting the string

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