Splitting a string and updating the same to a column

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Hello friends,

I have table called Customer and filed names are

1. CName
2. Contact1
3. Contact2

By mistakenly we have entered two contact numbers in

Contact1

column with a "/" separator.

Ex:     CName                   Contact1                        Contact2

    1.  Sunil               985456434 / 6786877

    2.  Anil                67574989 / 990756576

Now i want to split the Contact1(985456434 / 6786877) and update it to Contact2 column.

How can i do it in SQL...?

Posted 24-Mar-13 20:36pm

PRAKASH_N

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Maciej Los · Answer 1 · 2013-03-24T21:07:00

You need to use CHARINDEX[^] and SUBSTRING[^] function.

My variable @con1 replace with your column name ;)

SQL

DECLARE @con1 NVARCHAR(30)

SET @con1 = '67574989 / 990756576'

SELECT CHARINDEX(' ',@con1,1) AS SlashPosition

SELECT RTRIM(SUBSTRING(@con1, 1, CHARINDEX('/',@con1,1)-1)) AS Contact1,
    LTRIM(SUBSTRING(@con1, CHARINDEX('/',@con1,1)+1, LEN(@con1)-CHARINDEX('/',@con1,1))) AS Contact2