How do I remove duplicates in the following case in T-SQL?
I have a table with a column Code
of type varchar(max)
.
It contains a value like A/A/B/C
. I need the cell value to be A/B/C
.
Other possibility is A/B/C/A
need to be A/B/C
Thanks
How do I remove duplicates in the following case in T-SQL?
I have a table with a column Code
of type varchar(max)
.
It contains a value like A/A/B/C
. I need the cell value to be A/B/C
.
Other possibility is A/B/C/A
need to be A/B/C
Thanks
Try this.
CREATE FUNCTION STR_Func (@Str AS VARCHAR(100))
RETURNS VARCHAR(Max)
AS
BEGIN
DECLARE @count INT,
@tempstr VARCHAR(100)='',
@nLength INT,
@outstr VARCHAR(100)=''
SET @count=1
SET @Str = Replace(@Str, '/', '')
SET @nlength = Len(@Str)
WHILE ( @count < @nLength )
BEGIN
SET @tempstr=@tempstr + Substring(@Str, 1, 1)
SET @Str=Replace(@Str, Substring(@Str, 1, 1), '')
SELECT @outstr = @outstr + RIGHT(@tempstr, 1) + '/'
SET @count=@count + 1
END
RETURN LEFT(@outstr, Len(@outstr) - 1)
END
select dbo.STR_Func('B/A/C/A')
OUTPUT : B/A/C
If you want to remove duplicates and if dont care about the order then try this.
DECLARE @code VARCHAR(100)='B/A/C/A',
@code1 VARCHAR(100)=''
SELECT @code1 += '/' + splitrow
FROM (SELECT DISTINCT Split.a.value('.', 'VARCHAR(100)') splitrow
FROM (SELECT Cast ('<M>' + Replace(@code, '/', '</M><M>') + '</M>' AS XML) AS Data) AS A
CROSS APPLY Data.nodes ('/M') AS Split(a)) b
SELECT RIGHT(@code1, Len(@code1) - 1)
OUTPUT : A/B/C
I'm using the blow code from this linke [SQL SERVER – Remove Duplicate Entry from Comma Delimited String]http://blog.sqlauthority.com/2009/01/15/sql-server-remove-duplicate-entry-from-comma-delimited-string-udf/)
CREATE FUNCTION dbo.DistinctList
(
@List VARCHAR(MAX),
@Delim CHAR
)
RETURNS
VARCHAR(MAX)
AS
BEGIN
DECLARE @ParsedList TABLE
(
Item VARCHAR(MAX)
)
DECLARE @list1 VARCHAR(MAX), @Pos INT, @rList VARCHAR(MAX)
SET @list = LTRIM(RTRIM(@list)) + @Delim
SET @pos = CHARINDEX(@delim, @list, 1)
WHILE @pos > 0
BEGIN
SET @list1 = LTRIM(RTRIM(LEFT(@list, @pos - 1)))
IF @list1 <> ''
INSERT INTO @ParsedList VALUES (CAST(@list1 AS VARCHAR(MAX)))
SET @list = SUBSTRING(@list, @pos+1, LEN(@list))
SET @pos = CHARINDEX(@delim, @list, 1)
END
SELECT @rlist = COALESCE(@rlist+@Delim,'') + item
FROM (SELECT DISTINCT Item FROM @ParsedList) t
RETURN @rlist
END
GO
I changed the SELECT @rlist = COALESCE(@rlist+',','') + item
to SELECT @rlist = COALESCE(@rlist+@Delim,'') + item
because the original code is returning string with comma.
How to use:
SELECT dbo.DistinctList('A/B/C/A/A/A','/') DistinctList