Split function equivalent in T-SQL?

Question

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

Answer 1

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