Question

select * from dbo.split(RTRIM(@importRow), '¬')

gives error:

Msg 102, Level 15, State 1, Procedure proc_name, Line 40
Incorrect syntax near ‘(‘.

What is the correct syntax for this line? It’s been a while since I have done SQL properly and can’t for the life of me get this part of the script to execute!

Using SQL Server 2005

I apologise for the Title. Not quite sure what to put other than that or “Syntax error”!

Edit: The code for the SPLIT:

CREATE FUNCTION [dbo].[Split]
(
        @String VARCHAR(4000),
        @Delimiter VARCHAR(5)
)
RETURNS @SplittedValues TABLE
(
  OccurenceId SMALLINT IDENTITY(1,1),
  SplitValue VARCHAR(4000)
)
AS
BEGIN
DECLARE @SplitLength INT

WHILE LEN(@String) > 0
BEGIN
        SELECT @SplitLength = (CASE CHARINDEX(@Delimiter,@String) WHEN 0 THEN
LEN(@String) ELSE CHARINDEX(@Delimiter,@String) -1  END)

        INSERT INTO @SplittedValues
        SELECT SUBSTRING(@String,1,@SplitLength)

        SELECT @String = (CASE (LEN(@String) - @SplitLength) WHEN 0 THEN ''
ELSE RIGHT(@String, LEN(@String) - @SplitLength - 1) END)
END
RETURN
END
GO

And the code for starting the procedure

CREATE PROCEDURE dbo.[procedure] 
-- Add the parameters for the stored procedure here
@RETURN_VALUE int,
@importRow VarChar(8000)
......

Answer 1

Move the RTRIM into the UDF itself (based on comments)

This is good practice anyway so each use of the split UDF doeen’t need RTRIM