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  • February 16, 2011 at 9:18 am

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    Stamey (2/16/2011)

    That's great. I'd still like to learn how to deal with spaces for my case, as educational now, more than functional. I will probably be happier using what you have already developed for delimiter splitting.

    Thanks,

    Chris

    It's easy. In T-SQL, Spaces are no different than any other character except...

    1. '' = '{one space}' = '{virtually any number of spaces}' for comparison purposes.

    2. Trailing spaces are not recognized by LEN but are recognized by DATALENGTH.

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