根据SQL Server中的条件从定界字符串中获取子字符串

Question

I have a delimited

string ";2;5;2;5;04/02/2014;3;100.000000;5;04/02/2015;3;100.000000;5;04/02/2016;3;100.000000;5;04/02/2017;3;100.000000;5;04/02/2018;3;100.000000;"

The format for the data is as follows:

1st character:  Delimiter used within this format field
Number of dimensions 
Delimiter
Number of rows
Delimiter
Number of columns
Delimiter
...Data Elements…
Delimiter

I want to extract this data inside a query or a function to get the Data Elements in a table format like

ScheduleDate    ScheduleValue
04/02/2015  100.000000
04/02/2016  100.000000
04/02/2017  100.000000
04/02/2018  100.000000
04/02/2016  34428.9700
04/02/2017  34428.9700
04/02/2018  34428.9700
04/02/2019  34428.9700

Also here “5” indicates a date, “04/02/2015” is the actual date, “3” indicates a price and “100.00000” is the actual price. Similarly other indicators are like :

       1 Character
       2 Numeric
       3 Price  
       4 Security
       5 Date    
       6 Time    
       7 Date or time      
       8 Bulk
       9 Month/Year  

I need to configure in that function or query to accommodate this as well. I would be highly obliged if some one can help.

Answer 1

to get rid of the first three parameters one of the things you can do this:

DECLARE @string VARCHAR(max)
SET @string=';2;5;2;5;04/02/2014;3;100.000000;5;04/02/2015;3;100.000000;5;04/02/2016;3;100.000000;5;04/02/2017;3;100.000000;5;04/02/2018;3;100.000000;'
DECLARE @newstring VARCHAR(MAX)
SET @newstring=CAST((SELECT CAST('<Node>'+REPLACE(@string,';',';</Node><Node>')+'</Node>' AS XML).query('//Node[position()>4]/text()') ) AS VARCHAR(MAX))
SELECT @newstring

so this will basically leaves you data type and data, which you can parse with the existing code you mentioned