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SQL String parsing and fetching certain value
Posted on 2016-07-27
I have a string which i have to parse and retrieve the bill id fields. My string can have either one bill id or multiple bill id's.
Declare @str nvarchar(1000)
set @Str = 'Process of submitting the bill id: AS12345 is send back to Customer. Bill id:WE23456 and Bill id: AS12345 came from customers'
Declare @t table (billid varchar(100))
Insert into @t values ('AS12345'),('WE23456'),('AS12345')
select distinct billid from @t
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Active 1 day ago
not the prettiest but here goes:
Declare @str nvarchar(1000)
set @Str = 'Process of submitting the bill id: AS12345 is send back to Customer. Bill id:WE23456 and Bill id: AS12345 came from customers'
Declare @t table (billid varchar(100))
Insert into @t values ('AS12345'),('WE23456'),('AS12345')
select distinct billid from @t;
WITH cte AS (
SELECT @str base, PATINDEX('%[A-Z][A-Z][0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9]%',@str) start, SUBSTRING(@str,PATINDEX('%[A-Z][A-Z][0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9]%',@str),7) BillId, SUBSTRING(@str,PATINDEX('%[A-Z][A-Z][0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9]%',@str)+7,LEN(@str)) remaining
UNION ALL
SELECT cte.remaining base, PATINDEX('%[A-Z][A-Z][0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9]%',cte.remaining) start, SUBSTRING(cte.remaining,PATINDEX('%[A-Z][A-Z][0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9]%',cte.remaining),7) BillId, SUBSTRING(cte.remaining,PATINDEX('%[A-Z][A-Z][0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9]%',cte.remaining)+7,LEN(cte.remaining)) remaining
FROM cte
WHERE PATINDEX('%[A-Z][A-Z][0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9]%',cte.remaining) <> 0
)
SELECT DISTINCT cte.BillId
FROM cte
Active today
Chris is trying to etract all parts of @Str resembling a bill id pattern. That's fine, what this doesn't do is compare with really existing bill ids.
There's a simple solution without recursive cte, but it'll have a performance disadvantage with a large bill table:
You'd better be able to reduce the amount of bill ids to check, by having a flag of open bills you want to check and skip all the bills already closed for weeks, months, even years.
This solution is checking every reevant)billid, whether being part of @Str or not.
Tihs could combined, eg you could take Chris resut and inner join it with bills to see what he fishes really are bills and not any other ZZ99999 pattern. His solution also lacks finding any bill ids with more or less digits.
Bye, Olaf.
There's a simple solution without recursive cte, but it'll have a performance disadvantage with a large bill table:
Select bill.billid from @t as bill
where @Str Like '%'+bill.billid+'%'
You'd better be able to reduce the amount of bill ids to check, by having a flag of open bills you want to check and skip all the bills already closed for weeks, months, even years.
Select bill.billid from @t as bill
where bill.IsOpen AND @Str Like '%'+bill.billid+'%'
This solution is checking every reevant)billid, whether being part of @Str or not.
Tihs could combined, eg you could take Chris resut and inner join it with bills to see what he fishes really are bills and not any other ZZ99999 pattern. His solution also lacks finding any bill ids with more or less digits.
Bye, Olaf.
Active 1 day ago
you can try this. Assumption is you always have : before the billid.
Declare @str nvarchar(1000)
set @Str = 'Process of submitting the bill id: AS12345 is send back to Customer. Bill id:WE23456 and Bill id: AS12345 came from customers'
Declare @t table (billid varchar(100))
Insert into @t values ('AS12345'),('WE23456'),('AS12345')
;WITH CTE AS (
SELECT RTRIM(LEFT(str1,CHARINDEX(' ',str1))) billid FROM (
SELECT ltrim(SUBSTRING(str1, n, CHARINDEX(':', str1 + ':',n) - n)) AS str1
FROM (SELECT @Str str1) t1
CROSS JOIN (SELECT number FROM master..spt_values WHERE type = 'P') AS Numbers(n)
WHERE SUBSTRING(':' + str1, n, 1) = ':'
AND n < LEN(str1) + 1) t2)
SELECT DISTINCT t1.billid
FROM CTE c1
JOIN @t t1 ON c1.billid = t1.billid
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