Delimited String Parsing Functions - TwoCol set
by Jesse Roberge - YeshuaAgapao@gmail.com
Feed it two-column delimited horizontal data and it returns it back as a vertical table with the two column data in the same synchronized position order
Requires a table of numbers. These functions expect it to be called 'Counter' in the same database that you save these functions to.
Search for 'Counter table (table of numbers) setter-upper for SQL Server 2005' or Counter table (table of numbers) setter-upper for SQL Server 2000' if you need a script to set this up for you.
Works in both SQL Server 2000 and 2005.
Variants:
Array Has array position index and value data is not casted.
Table No array position index and value data is not casted.
IntArray Has array position index and value data is casted to int.
IntTable No array position index and value data is casted to int.
In the TwoCol delimiter function set, the table variants have negilable performance gain over the array variants because the position indexes is needed internally.
Usage:
fn_DelimitToArray_TwoCol ('red,green,yellow,blue,orange,purple','square,rectangle,circle,triangle,oval,hexagon',',',',') AS ParameterTable JOIN [table] ON ParameterTable.Value1=[table].[any decimal/numeric/character field #1] AND ParameterTable.Value2=[table].[any decimal/numeric/character field #2]
fn_DelimitToIntArray_TwoCol ('1,2,3,4,5,6','11,22,33,44,55,66',',',',') AS ParameterTable JOIN [table] ON ParameterTable.PK_IntID1=[table].[int field #1] AND ParameterTable.PK_IntID2=[table].[int field #2]
fn_DelimitToIntTable_TwoCol ('1,2,3,4,5,6','11,22,33,44,55,66',',',',') AS ParameterTable JOIN [table] ON ParameterTable.PK_IntID1=[table].[int field #1] AND ParameterTable.PK_IntID2=[table].[int field #2]
fn_DelimitToTable_TwoCol ('red,green,yellow,blue,orange,purple','square,rectangle,circle,triangle,oval,hexagon',',',',') AS ParameterTable JOIN [table] ON ParameterTable.Value1=[table].[any decimal/numeric/character field #1] AND ParameterTable.Value2=[table].[any decimal/numeric/character field #2]
Copyright:
Licensed under the L-GPL - a weak copyleft license - you are permitted to use this as a component of a proprietary database and call this from proprietary software.
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