instrrev() and Split() function equivalents in TSQL
Using SQL Server 2014.
I need to parse off the last two segments of a variable length string from a column in a customers database. In Access, I would simply use either Instrrev() or the Split() functions to perform this, but would like to do it in a SQL query.
Is there an equivalent to the Access instrrev() function in TSQL, which allows you to search for the character postion from right to left in a string as in:
?instrRev("ABC DEF GHI", " ") => 8
without having to work from left to right?
How about an equivalent to the SPLIT() function which parses a string into an array based on the delimiter provided:
Arr() = SPLIT("ABC DEF GHI", " ")
yields
Arr(0) = "ABC"
Arr(1) = "DEF"
Arr(2) = "GHI"
Thanks,
Dale
I need to parse off the last two segments of a variable length string from a column in a customers database. In Access, I would simply use either Instrrev() or the Split() functions to perform this, but would like to do it in a SQL query.
Is there an equivalent to the Access instrrev() function in TSQL, which allows you to search for the character postion from right to left in a string as in:
?instrRev("ABC DEF GHI", " ") => 8
without having to work from left to right?
How about an equivalent to the SPLIT() function which parses a string into an array based on the delimiter provided:
Arr() = SPLIT("ABC DEF GHI", " ")
yields
Arr(0) = "ABC"
Arr(1) = "DEF"
Arr(2) = "GHI"
Thanks,
Dale
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Norie's response was easy to implement and precisely what I was looking for, (never heard of REVERSE before). The other responses provided some other interesting techniques.