/*
This inline table valued function does the same thing as CHARINDEX except that it returns a virtual table with both the relative position and the actual position of ALL occurrences of the search expression. CHARINDEX on steroids. Most useful with providing starting and ending positions for the SUBSTRING function. As an inline TVF the function can be joined to any table column with a CROSS APPLY.
*/
/* Some demonstration examples /*
DECLARE @sampledata VARCHAR(255)
SET @sampledata = '123 Main St, Albany, NY 01234'
SELECT * FROM dbo.itvfFindPos(@sampledata,',')
SET @sampledata = 'xyz,12345,SomeStuff:xyz,MoreStuff,xyz'
SELECT * FROM dbo.itvfFindPos(@sampledata,',')
;WITH sampledata
AS
(
SELECT * FROM
(VALUES
('xyz,12345,SomeStuff:xyz,MoreStuff,xyz'),
('fubar,12345,SomeStuff:fubar,MoreStuff,fubar'),
('abc,12345,SomeStuff:abc,MoreStuff,abc'),
('boq,12345,SomeStuff:boq,MoreStuff,boq'),
('fizzbin,12345,SomeStuff:fizzbin,MoreStuff,fizzbin')
) AS data([foo])
)
SELECT
SUBSTRING(foo,fp.pos+1,9) AS foo
FROM
sampledata s
CROSS APPLY
dbo.itvfFindPos(s.foo,',') AS fp
WHERE
posnum = 3
;WITH sampledata
AS
(
SELECT * FROM
(VALUES
('111xyz,12345,SomeStuff:xyz,MoreStuff,xyz'),
('222fubar,12345,SomeStuff:fubar,MoreStuff,fubar'),
('333abc,12345,SomeStuff:abc,MoreStuff,abc'),
('444boq,12345,SomeStuff:boq,MoreStuff,boq'),
('555fizzbin,12345,SomeStuff:fizzbin,MoreStuff,fizzbin')
) AS data([foo])
)
SELECT
SUBSTRING(foo,fp.pos+1,9) AS foo
FROM
sampledata s
CROSS APPLY
dbo.itvfFindPos(s.foo,',') AS fp
WHERE
posnum = 4
;WITH sampledata
AS
(
SELECT * FROM
(VALUES
('123 Main St, Albany, NY 01234'),
('456 Elm Ave, Los Angeles, CA 91345'),
('789 Oakpark Drive, Chicago, IL 45678')
) AS data([foo])
)
SELECT
SUBSTRING(foo,fp.pos+2,8) AS foo
FROM
sampledata s
CROSS APPLY
dbo.itvfFindPos(s.foo,',') AS fp
WHERE
posnum = 2
;WITH sampledata
AS
(
SELECT * FROM
(VALUES
('xyz,12345,SomeStuff:xyz,MoreStuff,xyz'),
('fubar,12345,SomeStuff:fubar,MoreStuff,fubar'),
('abc,12345,SomeStuff:abc,MoreStuff,abc'),
('boq,12345,SomeStuff:boq,MoreStuff,boq'),
('fizzbin,12345,SomeStuff:fizzbin,MoreStuff,fizzbin')
) AS data([foo])
)
SELECT
pos
,SUBSTRING(foo,fp.pos,3) AS foo
FROM
sampledata s
CROSS APPLY
dbo.itvfFindPos(s.foo,'xyz') AS fp
;WITH sampledata
AS
(
SELECT * FROM
(VALUES
('123 Main St, Albany, NY 01234'),
('456 Elm Ave, Los Angeles, CA 91345'),
('789 Oakpark Drive, Chicago, IL 45678')
) AS data([foo])
)
SELECT
SUBSTRING(foo,fp.pos+2,fp1.pos-fp.pos-2) AS foo
FROM
sampledata s
CROSS APPLY
dbo.itvfFindPos(s.foo,',') AS fp
CROSS APPLY
dbo.itvfFindPos(s.foo,',') AS fp1
WHERE
fp.posnum = 1
AND fp1.posnum = 2
