Eirikur Eiriksson (5/1/2014)
Why not try Jeff Moden's splitter, pass space as delimiter?😎
Try it...
with p AS
(
SELECT 'asdf12345678901' AS Delivery_Site UNION
SELECT 'asd f 234 ' UNION
SELECT ' asdf 345 ' UNION
SELECT ' asdf 234567'
)
select *
from p
cross apply dbo.DelimitedSplit8K(p.Delivery_Site, ' ')
You get a LOT of noise with this. You would still have to left trim everything first. Something like this.
with p AS
(
SELECT 'asdf12345678901' AS Delivery_Site UNION
SELECT 'asd f 234 ' UNION
SELECT ' asdf 345 ' UNION
SELECT ' asdf 234567'
)
, SortedValues as
(
select *
from p
cross apply dbo.DelimitedSplit8K(ltrim(p.Delivery_Site), ' ') x
)
select Item
from SortedValues
where ItemNumber = 1
It certainly works but much like the PatternSplit it is overkill for just some string manipulation. 🙂
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