I’m looking to split '1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12,13,14,15...' (comma delimited) into a table or table variable.
Does anyone have a function that returns each one in a row?
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Here is somewhat old-fashioned solution:
/*
Splits string into parts delimitered with specified character.
*/
CREATE FUNCTION [dbo].[SDF_SplitString]
(
@sString nvarchar(2048),
@cDelimiter nchar(1)
)
RETURNS @tParts TABLE ( part nvarchar(2048) )
AS
BEGIN
if @sString is null return
declare @iStart int,
@iPos int
if substring( @sString, 1, 1 ) = @cDelimiter
begin
set @iStart = 2
insert into @tParts
values( null )
end
else
set @iStart = 1
while 1=1
begin
set @iPos = charindex( @cDelimiter, @sString, @iStart )
if @iPos = 0
set @iPos = len( @sString )+1
if @iPos - @iStart > 0
insert into @tParts
values ( substring( @sString, @iStart, @iPos-@iStart ))
else
insert into @tParts
values( null )
set @iStart = @iPos+1
if @iStart > len( @sString )
break
end
RETURN
END
In SQL Server 2008 you can achieve the same with .NET code. Maybe it would work faster, but definitely this approach is easier to manage.
DECLARE
@InputString NVARCHAR(MAX) = 'token1,token2,token3,token4,token5'
, @delimiter varchar(10) = ','
DECLARE @xml AS XML = CAST(('<X>'+REPLACE(@InputString,@delimiter ,'</X><X>')+'</X>') AS XML)
SELECT C.value('.', 'varchar(10)') AS value
FROM @xml.nodes('X') as X(C)
Source of this response: http://sqlhint.com/sqlserver/how-to/best-split-function-tsql-delimited
This is most like .NET, for those of you who are familiar with that function:
CREATE FUNCTION dbo.[String.Split]
(
@Text VARCHAR(MAX),
@Delimiter VARCHAR(100),
@Index INT
)
RETURNS VARCHAR(MAX)
AS BEGIN
DECLARE @A TABLE (ID INT IDENTITY, V VARCHAR(MAX));
DECLARE @R VARCHAR(MAX);
WITH CTE AS
(
SELECT 0 A, 1 B
UNION ALL
SELECT B, CONVERT(INT,CHARINDEX(@Delimiter, @Text, B) + LEN(@Delimiter))
FROM CTE
WHERE B > A
)
INSERT @A(V)
SELECT SUBSTRING(@Text,A,CASE WHEN B > LEN(@Delimiter) THEN B-A-LEN(@Delimiter) ELSE LEN(@Text) - A + 1 END) VALUE
FROM CTE WHERE A >0
SELECT @R
= V
FROM @A
WHERE ID = @Index + 1
RETURN @R
END
SELECT dbo.[String.Split]('121,2,3,0',',',1) -- gives '2'
I am tempted to squeeze in my favourite solution. The resulting table will consist of 2 columns: PosIdx for position of the found integer; and Value in integer.
create function FnSplitToTableInt
(
@param nvarchar(4000)
)
returns table as
return
with Numbers(Number) as
(
select 1
union all
select Number + 1 from Numbers where Number < 4000
),
Found as
(
select
Number as PosIdx,
convert(int, ltrim(rtrim(convert(nvarchar(4000),
substring(@param, Number,
charindex(N',' collate Latin1_General_BIN,
@param + N',', Number) - Number))))) as Value
from
Numbers
where
Number <= len(@param)
and substring(N',' + @param, Number, 1) = N',' collate Latin1_General_BIN
)
select
PosIdx,
case when isnumeric(Value) = 1
then convert(int, Value)
else convert(int, null) end as Value
from
Found
It works by using recursive CTE as the list of positions, from 1 to 100 by default. If you need to work with string longer than 100, simply call this function using 'option (maxrecursion 4000)' like the following:
select * from FnSplitToTableInt
(
'9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1, 0, ' +
'9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1, 0, ' +
'9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1, 0, ' +
'9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1, 0, ' +
'9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1, 0'
)
option (maxrecursion 4000)
/* *Object: UserDefinedFunction [dbo].[Split] Script Date: 10/04/2013 18:18:38* */
SET ANSI_NULLS ON
GO
SET QUOTED_IDENTIFIER ON
GO
ALTER FUNCTION [dbo].[Split]
(@List varchar(8000),@SplitOn Nvarchar(5))
RETURNS @RtnValue table
(Id int identity(1,1),Value nvarchar(100))
AS
BEGIN
Set @List = Replace(@List,'''','')
While (Charindex(@SplitOn,@List)>0)
Begin
Insert Into @RtnValue (value)
Select
Value = ltrim(rtrim(Substring(@List,1,Charindex(@SplitOn,@List)-1)))
Set @List = Substring(@List,Charindex(@SplitOn,@List)+len(@SplitOn),len(@List))
End
Insert Into @RtnValue (Value)
Select Value = ltrim(rtrim(@List))
Return
END
go
Select *
From [Clv].[Split] ('1,2,3,3,3,3,',',')
GO
This simple CTE will give what's needed:
DECLARE @csv varchar(max) = '1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12,13,14,15';
--append comma to the list for CTE to work correctly
SET @csv = @csv + ',';
--remove double commas (empty entries)
SET @csv = replace(@csv, ',,', ',');
WITH CteCsv AS (
SELECT CHARINDEX(',', @csv) idx, SUBSTRING(@csv, 1, CHARINDEX(',', @csv) - 1) [Value]
UNION ALL
SELECT CHARINDEX(',', @csv, idx + 1), SUBSTRING(@csv, idx + 1, CHARINDEX(',', @csv, idx + 1) - idx - 1) FROM CteCsv
WHERE CHARINDEX(',', @csv, idx + 1) > 0
)
SELECT [Value] FROM CteCsv
You've tagged this SQL Server 2008 but future visitors to this question (using SQL Server 2016+) will likely want to know about STRING_SPLIT.
With this new builtin function you can now just use
SELECT TRY_CAST(value AS INT)
FROM STRING_SPLIT ('1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12,13,14,15', ',')
Some restrictions of this function and some promising results of performance testing are in this blog post by Aaron Bertrand.
Try this
DECLARE @xml xml, @str varchar(100), @delimiter varchar(10)
SET @str = '1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12,13,14,15'
SET @delimiter = ','
SET @xml = cast(('<X>'+replace(@str, @delimiter, '</X><X>')+'</X>') as xml)
SELECT C.value('.', 'varchar(10)') as value FROM @xml.nodes('X') as X(C)
OR
DECLARE @str varchar(100), @delimiter varchar(10)
SET @str = '1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12,13,14,15'
SET @delimiter = ','
;WITH cte AS
(
SELECT 0 a, 1 b
UNION ALL
SELECT b, CHARINDEX(@delimiter, @str, b) + LEN(@delimiter)
FROM CTE
WHERE b > a
)
SELECT SUBSTRING(@str, a,
CASE WHEN b > LEN(@delimiter)
THEN b - a - LEN(@delimiter)
ELSE LEN(@str) - a + 1 END) value
FROM cte WHERE a > 0
Many more ways of doing the same is here How to split comma delimited string?
Using tally table here is one split string function(best possible approach) by Jeff Moden
CREATE FUNCTION [dbo].[DelimitedSplit8K]
(@pString VARCHAR(8000), @pDelimiter CHAR(1))
RETURNS TABLE WITH SCHEMABINDING AS
RETURN
--===== "Inline" CTE Driven "Tally Table" produces values from 0 up to 10,000...
-- enough to cover NVARCHAR(4000)
WITH E1(N) AS (
SELECT 1 UNION ALL SELECT 1 UNION ALL SELECT 1 UNION ALL
SELECT 1 UNION ALL SELECT 1 UNION ALL SELECT 1 UNION ALL
SELECT 1 UNION ALL SELECT 1 UNION ALL SELECT 1 UNION ALL SELECT 1
), --10E+1 or 10 rows
E2(N) AS (SELECT 1 FROM E1 a, E1 b), --10E+2 or 100 rows
E4(N) AS (SELECT 1 FROM E2 a, E2 b), --10E+4 or 10,000 rows max
cteTally(N) AS (--==== This provides the "base" CTE and limits the number of rows right up front
-- for both a performance gain and prevention of accidental "overruns"
SELECT TOP (ISNULL(DATALENGTH(@pString),0)) ROW_NUMBER() OVER (ORDER BY (SELECT NULL)) FROM E4
),
cteStart(N1) AS (--==== This returns N+1 (starting position of each "element" just once for each delimiter)
SELECT 1 UNION ALL
SELECT t.N+1 FROM cteTally t WHERE SUBSTRING(@pString,t.N,1) = @pDelimiter
),
cteLen(N1,L1) AS(--==== Return start and length (for use in substring)
SELECT s.N1,
ISNULL(NULLIF(CHARINDEX(@pDelimiter,@pString,s.N1),0)-s.N1,8000)
FROM cteStart s
)
--===== Do the actual split. The ISNULL/NULLIF combo handles the length for the final element when no delimiter is found.
SELECT ItemNumber = ROW_NUMBER() OVER(ORDER BY l.N1),
Item = SUBSTRING(@pString, l.N1, l.L1)
FROM cteLen l
;
Referred from Tally OH! An Improved SQL 8K “CSV Splitter” Function
here is the split function that u asked
CREATE FUNCTION [dbo].[split](
@delimited NVARCHAR(MAX),
@delimiter NVARCHAR(100)
) RETURNS @t TABLE (id INT IDENTITY(1,1), val NVARCHAR(MAX))
AS
BEGIN
DECLARE @xml XML
SET @xml = N'<t>' + REPLACE(@delimited,@delimiter,'</t><t>') + '</t>'
INSERT INTO @t(val)
SELECT r.value('.','varchar(MAX)') as item
FROM @xml.nodes('/t') as records(r)
RETURN
END
execute the function like this
select * from dbo.split('1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12,13,14,15',',')
This is another version which really does not have any restrictions (e.g.: special chars when using xml approach, number of records in CTE approach) and it runs much faster based on a test on 10M+ records with source string average length of 4000. Hope this could help.
Create function [dbo].[udf_split] (
@ListString nvarchar(max),
@Delimiter nvarchar(1000),
@IncludeEmpty bit)
Returns @ListTable TABLE (ID int, ListValue nvarchar(1000))
AS
BEGIN
Declare @CurrentPosition int, @NextPosition int, @Item nvarchar(max), @ID int, @L int
Select @ID = 1,
@L = len(replace(@Delimiter,' ','^')),
@ListString = @ListString + @Delimiter,
@CurrentPosition = 1
Select @NextPosition = Charindex(@Delimiter, @ListString, @CurrentPosition)
While @NextPosition > 0 Begin
Set @Item = LTRIM(RTRIM(SUBSTRING(@ListString, @CurrentPosition, @NextPosition-@CurrentPosition)))
If @IncludeEmpty=1 or LEN(@Item)>0 Begin
Insert Into @ListTable (ID, ListValue) Values (@ID, @Item)
Set @ID = @ID+1
End
Set @CurrentPosition = @NextPosition+@L
Set @NextPosition = Charindex(@Delimiter, @ListString, @CurrentPosition)
End
RETURN
END
This blog came with a pretty good solution using XML in T-SQL.
This is the function I came up with based on that blog (change function name and result type cast per need):
SET ANSI_NULLS ON
GO
SET QUOTED_IDENTIFIER ON
GO
CREATE FUNCTION [dbo].[SplitIntoBigints]
(@List varchar(MAX), @Splitter char)
RETURNS TABLE
AS
RETURN
(
WITH SplittedXML AS(
SELECT CAST('<v>' + REPLACE(@List, @Splitter, '</v><v>') + '</v>' AS XML) AS Splitted
)
SELECT x.v.value('.', 'bigint') AS Value
FROM SplittedXML
CROSS APPLY Splitted.nodes('//v') x(v)
)
GO
CREATE FUNCTION Split
(
@delimited nvarchar(max),
@delimiter nvarchar(100)
) RETURNS @t TABLE
(
-- Id column can be commented out, not required for sql splitting string
id int identity(1,1), -- I use this column for numbering splitted parts
val nvarchar(max)
)
AS
BEGIN
declare @xml xml
set @xml = N'<root><r>' + replace(@delimited,@delimiter,'</r><r>') + '</r></root>'
insert into @t(val)
select
r.value('.','varchar(max)') as item
from @xml.nodes('//root/r') as records(r)
RETURN
END
GO
usage
Select * from dbo.Split(N'1,2,3,4,6',',')
CREATE Function [dbo].[CsvToInt] ( @Array varchar(4000))
returns @IntTable table
(IntValue int)
AS
begin
declare @separator char(1)
set @separator = ','
declare @separator_position int
declare @array_value varchar(4000)
set @array = @array + ','
while patindex('%,%' , @array) <> 0
begin
select @separator_position = patindex('%,%' , @array)
select @array_value = left(@array, @separator_position - 1)
Insert @IntTable
Values (Cast(@array_value as int))
select @array = stuff(@array, 1, @separator_position, '')
end
You write this function in sql server after that problem will be solved.
http://csharpdotnetsol.blogspot.in/2013/12/csv-function-in-sql-server-for-divide.html
Source: Stackoverflow.com