Stored procedure to parse a string

Question

I need to write a stored procedure for which the input is a string.

The input string contains variable names and their values separated by pipeline delimiter like this:<

Answer 1

One possible solution is use XML

DECLARE @text VARCHAR(1000) 
        ,@xml xml

SELECT @text = 'City=Hyderabad | Mobile=48629387429 | Role=User | Name =Praveen'

SELECT @text = REPLACE(@text,'|','"')
    ,@text = REPLACE(@text,'=','="')
    ,@text = ''

SELECT @xml = CAST(@text AS XML)

select 
    line.col.value('@Name[1]', 'varchar(100)') AS Name
    ,line.col.value('@City[1]', 'varchar(100)') AS City
    ,line.col.value('@Mobile[1]', 'varchar(100)') AS Mobile 
    ,line.col.value('@Role[1]', 'varchar(100)') AS Role 
FROM @xml.nodes('/row') AS line(col)