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how to find substring between 3rd and 4th comma

How to write a function which returns substring between commas.

example :
    @TempString = "25,134,315,124,248,15,"

select myfunction(@TempString, 3, ',')
should return : 315

select myfunction(@TempString, 4, ',')
should return : 124
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Philippe Damerval
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Hi,
This pseudocode should help you


function getStringAtCommaNumber (StringParm, commaPosition)
  Define Stringvar as string variable
  Define dynamic array of strings
  while (position of comma in string > 0)
     add (left part of string up to first comma position) to array
     Reassign whatever is right of the same position to stringvar
  end while
  if stringvar not empty then add stringvar to array
  return element of array at position commaposition - 1
end

The question is just 100 points after all :) I hope this helps. You will find all the reference information you need by looking up SQL server string functions (position, left, right, etc)

Thx

Philippe
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I just updated following statement and it worked perfectly
set @cp = 0

Thannks