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SQL Like with regular expression

Is it possible to create a not like regular expression so that I can filter out records base on multiple values?

So the query example is something like:

DECLARE @VALUE1 VARCHAR(80), @VALUE2 VARCHAR(80)
SET @VALUE1 = 'ABS'
SET @VALUE2 = 'NONE'

SELECT ID, DESCRIPTION
FROM ITEM_MASTER
WHERE (DESCRIPTION NOT LIKE '%'+@VALUE1+'%' OR @VALUE1 = '')
        (AND DESCRIPTION NOT LIKE '%'+@VALUE2+'%' OR @VALUE2 = '')

The above works, but issue is that users can have more than just 2 filters.  The filters can vary from 0 to 10 different filter since it's base off description.  Can something be set so that it can be just 1 parameter and a function can parse values?

Example:

DECLARE @VALUE1 VARCHAR(MAX)
SET @VALUE1 = 'ABS,NONE)

SELECT ID, DESCRIPTION
FROM ITEM_MASTER
WHERE (DESCRIPTION NOT LIKE (SELECT VALUE FROM DBO.VALUESTABLE(@VALUE1, ',')) OR @VALUE = '')

Here's the function I found online, but this only works if it's DESCRIPTION IN and does not work with LIKE.

CREATE FUNCTION [dbo].[VALUESTABLE]
(
@VALUES VARCHAR(MAX),
@SEPARATOR VARCHAR(2)
) RETURNS @RES TABLE ([VALUE] VARCHAR(MAX))
AS
BEGIN
DECLARE @VALUE VARCHAR(MAX)
DECLARE @COMMAPOS INT, @LASTPOS INT
SET @COMMAPOS = 0

SELECT @LASTPOS = @COMMAPOS, @COMMAPOS = CHARINDEX(@SEPARATOR, @VALUES, @LASTPOS+1)
WHILE @COMMAPOS>@LASTPOS
BEGIN
      SELECT @VALUE = SUBSTRING(@VALUES, @LASTPOS+1, @COMMAPOS-@LASTPOS-1)
      INSERT INTO @RES SELECT @VALUE WHERE @VALUE <> ''
      SELECT @LASTPOS = @COMMAPOS, @COMMAPOS = CHARINDEX(@SEPARATOR, @VALUES, @LASTPOS+1)
END
SELECT @VALUE = SUBSTRING(@VALUES, @LASTPOS+1, LEN(@VALUES))
INSERT INTO @RES SELECT @VALUE WHERE @VALUE <> ''
RETURN END
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Thank you.  That works great.