comparing two string

• mailtoashokberwal

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  November 27, 2013 at 6:18 am

  #301706

  Any suggestion on below:

  I need to compare two strings which have comma separated ISO Country codes.

  For example : String1 = '356,840'

  String2 = '840,356'

  Actually both string give same countries but if we do SQL compare they are not same.

  Is there anyway or any inbuilt SQL function which fits here.

  Note : I don't want to use table variable/Temp table due to some xyz constraints.

• Lowell

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  November 27, 2013 at 6:37 am

  #1669453

  mailtoashokberwal (11/27/2013)

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  Any suggestion on below:

  I need to compare two strings which have comma separated ISO Country codes.

  For example : String1 = '356,840'

  String2 = '840,356'

  Actually both string give same countries but if we do SQL compare they are not same.

  Is there anyway or any inbuilt SQL function which fits here.

  Note : I don't want to use table variable/Temp table due to some xyz constraints.

  you could do it with the DelimitedSplit8K function for example

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

  DECLARE @String1 varchar(30) = '356,840',

  @String2 varchar(30) = '840,356'

  IF NOT EXISTS(

  SELECT fn.Item from dbo.DelimitedSplit8K(@String1,',') fn

  EXCEPT

  SELECT fn.Item from dbo.DelimitedSplit8K(@String2,',') fn

  )

  PRINT 'No Differences found'

  ELSE

  PRINT 'they are not the same, regardless of order'

  Lowell

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