Question

I have a varchar(50) sql server column with data like this:

RawData
----------------------------
Washington 40 New Orleans 32
Detroit 27 St. Louis 23

I’m trying to parse out the data so I have something like this:

WinningTeam     WinningTeamScore      LosingTeam    LosingTeamScore
-----------     ----------------      ----------    ---------------
Washington      40                    New Orleans   32
Detroit         27                    St. Louis     23

I’m stuck. I was going to use charindex to find the first space, however some city names (St. Louis, New York, etc) have spaces in the names.

Is there a way to identify the position of the first number in a string?

Thanks

Answer 1

You can use the PATINDEX function instead of CHARINDEX, here lies the documentation 😉