Get given character's position from a string

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Get given character's position from a string

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hxd001_810-512717

Posted Wednesday, December 19, 2007 12:13 AM

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John Donaldson

Posted Thursday, February 14, 2008 1:33 PM

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Function has a bug in it. If the @AppPos is two higher than the last match, the result is incorrect.

Example

select dbo.f_firstposition('abc,def',',',3)
go
Result:4 Incorrect

One Solution - Break when you can't find the next occurrence :

create function dbo.f_firstposition
(@Str varchar(8000),@StrSep varchar(10),@AppPos int)
returns int
begin
declare @i int
declare @ii int
set @Str=rtrim(ltrim(@Str))
set @i=1
select @ii=charindex(@StrSep,@Str)
if @i=@AppPos
return @ii
else
while @AppPos>@i
begin
if charindex(@StrSep,right(@Str,len(@Str)-@ii))<>0
select @ii=charindex(@StrSep,right(@Str,len(@Str)-@ii))+@ii
else
begin
set @ii=0
break
end
set @i=@i+1
end

return @ii
end
go

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