Question

I wrote a function which returns a table with single column with data separated as ‘|’.

Example if you pass parameter to function as funsplit('SAGAR|INDIA|MUMBAI','|')

it returns as

Item<Column Name>
SAGAR
INDIA
MUMBAI

I want it as

COLUMN 1   COLUMN2    COLUMN3
-----------------------------
SAGAR      INDIA      MUMBAI

Here is my function

ALTER FUNCTION [dbo].[funSplit]
(
    @sInputList Varchar(8000), -- List of delimited items  
    @sDelimiter VarChar(8000) = ',' -- delimiter that separates items  
)
Returns @List Table (item VarChar(8000))  
Begin  
 Declare @sItem VarChar(8000)  

 While CharIndex(@sDelimiter,@sInputList,0) <> 0  
  Begin  
   Select   
   @sItem=RTrim(LTrim(SubString(@sInputList,1,CharIndex(@sDelimiter,@sInputList,0)-1))),  
   @sInputList=RTrim(LTrim(SubString(@sInputList,CharIndex(@sDelimiter,@sInputList,0)+Len(@sDelimiter),Len(@sInputList))))  

   If Len(@sItem) > 0  
    Insert Into @List Select @sItem  
 End  

 If Len(@sInputList) > 0  
  Insert Into @List Select @sInputList -- Put the last item in  

 Return  
End

Answer 1

This will transpose your results.

select *
from
(
 SELECT Row_Number() over(order by Item) rn,  Item 
 from dbo.funsplit('SAGAR|INDIA|MUMBAI','|')
) src
PIVOT 
(Max(Item) for rn in ([1],[2],[3])) p

If the order matters to you, you need to return that order from your function

If the columns are variable, then you can create the above with dynamic SQL and use sp_executesql