Question

I have a table Template with following columns:

ID, [Text]

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Suppose I have two records in a Template table,

1, ‘His full name is ##Full_Name##,he was born on ##Date_of_Birth## in city of ##Place_of_Birth##’

2, ‘I am ##First_Name##, I was born on ##Date_of_Birth##’

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I want to find ##Full_Name##, ##Date_of_Birth## and ##Place_of_Birth## in a row.

In the other row there can be two match result which are ##First_Name## and ##Date_of_Birth## .

The output of the two records would be like that:

1, Full_Name, Date_of_Birth, Place_of_Birth

2, First_Name, Date_of_Birth

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Can anyone help me?

Answer 1

Here it is:

DECLARE @Text NVARCHAR(MAX)
SET @Text ='His full name is ##Full_Name##,he was born on ##Date_of_Birth## in city of ##Place_of_Birth##'

DECLARE @Delimiter VARCHAR(1000)
SET @Delimiter = '##';

WITH 
    numbers(number)
      AS ( SELECT   ROW_NUMBER() OVER ( ORDER BY o.object_id, o2.object_id ) Number
           FROM     sys.objects o
                    CROSS JOIN sys.objects o2
         ) ,
    counts ( began, number )
      AS ( SELECT   CHARINDEX(@Delimiter, @TExt, 0)
                  , 1
           UNION ALL
           SELECT   CHARINDEX(@Delimiter, @TExt, began + 1)
                  , number + 1
           FROM     counts
           WHERE    CHARINDEX(@Delimiter, @TExt, began + 1) > 0
         ) ,
    subs ( began, ends, number )
      AS ( SELECT   C.began + LEN(@delimiter)
                  , c2.began
                  , c.number
           FROM     counts C
                    INNER JOIN counts C2 ON c2.number = c.number + 1
           WHERE    C.number % 2 = 1
         )
SELECT  SUBSTRING(@TExt, began, ( ends - began )) Word
FROM    subs