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
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',',')
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.
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
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?
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'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.