FW: [AccessD] SQL to count delimiters in a string

This looks interesting. I'll give it a try, thanks
Jim Hale

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From: catchrest at denverdb.com [mailto:catchrest at denverdb.com]
Sent: Wednesday, August 24, 2005 11:25 AM
To: Jim.Hale at fleetpride.com
Subject: Re: [AccessD] SQL to count delimiters in a string


Jim,

Please feel free to post this to the group, my webmail does not work with
the 
proper Reply To Settings.  This SQl will get you what you want, I would 
convert it to a Function, but here's the code:


DECLARE @str	VarChar(500)
DECLARE @x INT
DECLARE @Count INT

SET @str = 'st|ddd|ww|ex 3 fff|sss 1 eenie|meenie|minie|moe 3'

SET @x = CharIndex('|', @str,  1)
SET @Count = 0
WHILE @x <> 0
BEGIN
	SET @Count = @Count + 1
	SET @str = SubString(@str, @x + 1, 500)
	SET @x = CharIndex('|', @str)
END

PRINT @Count

-- Chris Mackin
> 
> Assume I have a text field in a table. Further assume 
> that the text strings
> are delimited by the pipe chara
> cter "|". I want to know how many pipe
> characters occ
> ur in each field, ie. the select statement should retu
> rn:
> 
> fldText                         Occurrences
> te
> st|ddd|ww|ex                3
> fff|sss                
>              1
> eenie|meenie|minie|moe   3
> 
> What is 
> the correct SQL to produce the desired result? TIA
> Ji
> m Hale
> 
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