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Parsing Text into SQL Server

Asked by superfly18 in MS SQL Server

Tags: parse, sql, text, server

I have some text data from a legacy system (old Mainframe) which I am trying to input into
SQL server. I only have soft copies *.DAT files of the output. The data output is static
and certain fields are specified by their line number, :#:. I would like to parse these
files, but I am not sure on how to go about doing it. The file structure looks like this.
A5

A5543645674645646446
      :01:KI
:02:AMERA123456C897
:03:
:04:
:05:
:10:BIRDCAGE
:12:A50212USD1234,89
:74:LONG STRING HERE
:113:B
:245:123456XIX1234
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A62354424334242423234
      :01:KI
:02:EURO123456C897
:03:
:04:
:05:
:06:
:10:BIRDCAGE
:12:A50212USD2345,89
:74:LONG STRING HERE
:113:B
:245:123456XIX1235
-

The values theat I would like to import into SQL Server, are only :02:,:10: :12:,:74:
:113:,:245: However in some cases these values will be null, and
sometimes those lines, and line numbers will not exist at all. When importing into SQL
Server, I would like the output to look like this:

:02:      :10:      :12:      :74:      :113:      :245:
Value      Value      Value      Value      Value      Value
Value      Value      Null      Value      Value      Value

So that each line number is a column, and the values for those columns are the strings
next to those values. If the line number does not exist, or there is no data in the line
number, the value will be null.

As you can see, there are multiple records in one file, and it there are not always
the same number of records in each file.

I have never done text parsing before, however need a lot of help on this one, any code,
suggestions, or pointers to the right direction will be most helpful.

Thank You!

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Parsing Text into SQL Server

Asked by superfly18 in MS SQL Server

Tags: parse, sql, text, server

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