Split column into rows based on new line

SELECT Class = CONVERT(int, LEFT(REPLACE(your_column, 'Class ', ''), CHARINDEX (':', your_column)-7)),
	Text = RTRIM(LTRIM(SUBSTRING(your_column, CHARINDEX (':', your_column)+1, len(your_column))))
FROM your_table

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Hi,
Thank you for the reply. But this only shows me one row where the class number for the first item is in the class column. Maybe I wasn't clear enough, but what I need as an output is three rows where the Class is 7,9 and 10. In the Text column the text that belongs to each class sholud be in three different rows, that is:


                  Class         Text
Row 1         7               Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipisicing
Row 2         9               At vero eos et accusamus et iusto odio dignissimos
Row 3         10             Temporibus autem quibusdam et aut officiis debitis

Ahhh I misunderstood. The entire input is in a single cell?

Will have another crack at it.

Yes, it's in a single cell

...so let me also explain a bit.

The first CTE takes your input text and converts it to some ad hoc XML, the result being roughly this (but without line breaks - I just put some in to make it readable):

<H>
    <r>Class 7:    Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipisicing</r>
    <r>Class 9:    At vero eos et accusamus et iusto odio dignissimos</r>
    <r>Class 10:  Temporibus autem quibusdam et aut officiis debitis</r>
</H>

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The second CTE uses the XML nodes function to convert that XML into a table - nodes is a table valued function. It then CROSS APPLYs it to the original data (essentially it's like a join but the right side of the join is dynamic based on the left - in this case the function nodes applied to the XML field on the left). This gets you this:

        Line
Row 1 | Class 7:    Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipisicing
Row 2 | Class 9:    At vero eos et accusamus et iusto odio dignissimos
Row 3 | Class 10:  Temporibus autem quibusdam et aut officiis debitis 

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The final part of the query is just what I had written previously which splits each line to get the number and the text as 2 columns.

Excellent job, thank you very much for this :)

You're welcome. It was a great learning experience for me too :)
Have a nice day!