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 Parsing one Column with delimiter into multiple columns

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Posted - 2005-07-08 : 07:24:57
Rudi writes "Parsing one Column with delimiter into multiple columns

I am exporting a database into a coma delimited file. This is what I have.

select Link,outlookusername as Author,Typist,Date,Correspondence.Caseid
as Caseid,"Acct#" as client,"File #" as matter from Correspondence inner join casetable on casetable.caseid = Correspondence.Caseid inner join "user table" on "user table"."user" = Correspondence.author and docid IS NULL

The problem is I need to split a column into 2 columns. The link column has a delimiter in each row it is the ‘#’.The results of each row in the link column looks something like this.“Test document#\\DC\documents\document.doc” as you can probably tell it refers to the document name and its location. I need to split this into docname and doclocation columns. "

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Posted - 2005-07-08 : 08:19:57
a combination of CHARINDEX and SUBSTRING will separate the columns.
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