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how extract values from expressions

chalam87

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December 10, 2015 at 6:02 am

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Hi,
how extract values from expressions
declare @testdata table(expression varchar(500))
insert into @testdata values('[w1+w2+w3/5]'),('[(w1+w2+w3)/5]'),('[(w4-w5*w6)/5]')
select * from @testdata
Result like
w1
w2
w3
w1
w2
w3
w4
w5
w6
--chalam

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ben.brugman SSChampion Points: 13369 More actions · Answer 1

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DelimitedSplit8K

Recipe:

Replace all chars/strings which are not a value with an 'X', or another character which is not used.

Use the DelimitedSplit8K function to split the string into the seperate parts.

Do any further filtering.

I use a self build Replace2 function instead of a number of replaces.

Here the number 5 is not filtered out, because I do not know what is to be considered a value and what is not. So this is not complete but can be used as a start.

Tell us if this does help.

Ben

Edit.

Add the new characters and the replacement for this to the set of chars to replace.

('[(w4-w5*w6)/5]') so ad a replace for the '*' as wel.

update @testdata set expression = master.dbo.Replace2(expression,'[|+|/|*|-|]|(|)|XXXX|XX|XX|','X|X|X|X|X|X|X|X|X|X|X|X')

declare @testdata table(expression varchar(500))

insert into @testdata values('[w1+w2+w3/5]'),('[(w1+w2+w3)/5]')

update @testdata set expression = master.dbo.Replace2(expression,'[|+|/|]|(|)|XXXX|XX|XX|','X|X|X|X|X|X|X|X|X|X')

-- Or use the replace function to do this for each character/string independend.

select * from @testdata

SELECT item,* FROM @testdata

CROSS APPLY DelimitedSplit8K(expression, 'x') a

WHERE Item <> ''

-- OR

SELECT distinct item FROM @testdata

CROSS APPLY DelimitedSplit8K(expression, 'x') a

WHERE Item <> ''

Luis Cazares SSC Guru Points: 183706 More actions · Answer 2

The DelimitedSplit8K is a great tool, but you might find useful to use another tool to reduce the code.

This tool is the Pattern Splitter created by Chris Morris and posted by Dwain Camps in here: http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/String+Manipulation/94365/

Then, the code might look like this:

declare @testdata table(expression varchar(500))

insert into @testdata values('[w1+w2+w3/5]'),('[(w1+w2+w3)/5]'),('[(w4-w5*w6)/5]')

SELECT expression, Item

FROM @testdata

--Uses REPLACE because the splitter doesn't seem to be escaping the right square bracket correctly

CROSS APPLY dbo.PatternSplitCM(REPLACE( expression, ']', '['), '%[-()[+=*/]%')

WHERE Matched = 0 --Discard operators

AND Item LIKE '%[^0-9]%' --Discard literals

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Alan Burstein SSC Guru Points: 61141 More actions · Answer 3

Another way, using delimitedsplit8K and patreplace8k (both referenced in my signature) would be like so:

declare @testdata table(expression varchar(500))

insert into @testdata

SELECT expression FROM

(values('[w1+w2+w3/5]'),('[(w1+w2+w3)/5]'),('[(w4-w5*w6)/5]')) x(expression)

select expression, Item

from @testdata

CROSS APPLY dbo.Patreplace8K(expression,'[^w0-9]','|')

CROSS APPLY dbo.delimitedsplit8k(newstring,'|')

WHERE Item LIKE 'w[0-9]%';

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ScottPletcher SSC Guru Points: 101106 More actions · Answer 4

If it's always a "w" followed by a digit or digits, perhaps just this?!:

declare @testdata table(expression varchar(500))

insert into @testdata values('[w1+w2+w3/5]'),('[(w1+w2+w3)/5]'),('[(w4-w5*w6)/5]')

insert into @testdata values('w1')

insert into @testdata values('2w3')

insert into @testdata values('4+w5')

select 'w' + LEFT(ds.item, patindex('%[^0-9]%', ds.Item + '.') - 1)

from @testdata td

cross apply dbo.DelimitedSplit8K(td.expression, 'w') ds

where ds.ItemNumber > 1 AND ds.Item like '[0-9]%'

Edit: Corrected code and added more test data.

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