nick.wright 69367 (12/4/2012)
Thank you very much for this. I wouldn't normally use a while loop in a function, but looking at the replace/substring code I've written in the past to get, say, the 5th element in a delimited string I'm more than happy to use it here!My only amendment was to add the delimiter as a parameter, to make it more extensible.
Nick,
Unfortunately you found a very old thread with a VERY out of date methodology for splitting delimited strings. Please take a look at the link in my signature for MUCH improved way to split strings in sql.
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