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separating a text field where info divided by a dash

  • December 27, 2006 at 9:21 am

    #115845

    Example

    Col1 = FIN - TIN - LIN - BIN

     

    Need to take col1 and make 4 columns out of it.

    col1 = FIN

    col2 = TIN

    col3 = LIN

    col4 = BIN

    Isn't this charindex or something like that?

     

  • December 27, 2006 at 9:30 am

    #680112

    Check this out:

    http://www.sqlservercentral.com/columnists/sjones/20010424135929_1.asp

    Charindex or patindex will work.

  • December 27, 2006 at 1:44 pm

    #680172

    IF you will always have 4 columns, then this will work nicely...

    DECLARE @TestText VARCHAR(100)

        SET @TestText = 'FIN - TIN - LIN - BIN'

     SELECT PARSENAME(REPLACE(@TestText,' - ','.'),4) AS FirstCol,

            PARSENAME(REPLACE(@TestText,' - ','.'),3) AS SecondCol,

            PARSENAME(REPLACE(@TestText,' - ','.'),2) AS ThirdCol,

            PARSENAME(REPLACE(@TestText,' - ','.'),1) AS FourthCol

    IF you have a variable number of columns or more than 4 columns, we'll have to resort to other measures... let us know, please.

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