As always your help is much appreciated. This function is going into my db template.
I think I am missing how to apply it in this context in a remote view
Select cname, mline(memfld,1) as cline1, mline(memfld,2) as cline2, mline(memfld,3) as cline3
I would imagine that in each mline call I would call the function on the varchar(max) field, but since the function returns multiple records I would also need to specify which line of the array goes into the result set in that position.
What am I missing ?
(my first instinct is to add another param specifying the row and to modify the return value to single line but being t-sql impaired I realize there may be another way )
TIA
>Check
http://www.berezniker.com/display/SQL/Alines+UDF+-+String+Split>
>>In a memo field I would use mline to retrieve rows in a sql select.
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>>Now I need to obtain the first 3 rows of a varchar(max) where there are char(13)s breaking the lines. ( going into a remote view )
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>>I can figure the first left() statement using charindex(char(13),mfield,1) but I'm struggling with the substring() syntax for lines 2 -> n
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>>If I am converting an app where I'm doing a lot of this should I have a UDF that would extract row(n) from a varchar(max) ?
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>>Guidance appreciated, as always.
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