October 26, 2010 at 4:06 pm
Please help me, my ignorance of SQL and ASCII has lead me to lose temendous amount of time trying to do this task.
I have ascii characters in an existing table column that range from single characters to sequentially doubled and tripled characters in range from 0 - 255. My goal is to read each string from each record and convert each charter in that string to it's number equivalent, group the numbers for the string and update another column in the same table with the number. ASCII strings (shown here separated by commas) like. '"/, aA╢, a8σ, %┐,{ '}{
I found this in SQL Server (ASCII convertion) help topic: ms-help://MS.SQLCC.v9/MS.SQLSVR.v9.en/tsqlref9/html/45c2044a-0593-4805-8bae-0fad4bde2e6b.htm
But I'm SQL stupid and don't know how to loop, convert, group the values then pass the result back to the table in integer form.
Below is what I've been trying to modify to accomplish this task and not getting anywhere.
SET TEXTSIZE 0
-- Create variables for the character string and for the current
-- position in the string.
DECLARE @position int, @string char(8), @myval int
-- Initialize the current position and the string variables.
SET @position = 1
--here I'm trying to load the @string with a select statement ASCII string column
SET @string = SELECT dbo.FCCFRE.LIC_ID
FROM dbo.FCCFRE
--I want to update this column with the numeric value after it resolves the ASCII string to an integer string.
--I know this code puts out each code separately, but I need to group the values.
FOR UPDATE OF FRE_ID
--need to loop through each record but not know how to do it
WHILE @position <= DATALENGTH(@string)
BEGIN
SELECT ASCII(SUBSTRING(@string, @position, 1)),
CHAR(ASCII(SUBSTRING(@string, @position, 1)))
SET @position = @position + 1
END
GO
--Don't know how to pass the number to @Myval and update the FRE_ID column.
This forum is my last resort, if no one knows how to do this I will have to call Microsoft for help!
TIA
October 26, 2010 at 10:52 pm
Cross-posted. Please post all responses here.
Wayne
Microsoft Certified Master: SQL Server 2008
Author - SQL Server T-SQL Recipes
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