Convert textlines in records - sql

Question

I am looking for a way, that I can convert lines of a text in separate records. Perhaps there is someone who has an idea?
I have the following record in a table:
1 blabla Messe\nJahr\nLand
The third field is a textfield. The content is a text with three lines.
now, I should write a select, which gives me as a result three records
1 Memo
2 Jahr
3 Land

Answer 1

i suggest using a cursor and then splitting the string using charpos. as i did not know the name of your table or column, i used table name a, column name a.
declare c cursor for
select a
from a
declare #p varchar(max)
open c
fetch next from c into #p;
while ##FETCH_STATUS = 0
begin
while CHARINDEX('\n',#p,0) > 0
begin
select SUBSTRING(#p,0,charindex('\n',#p,0))
set #p = SUBSTRING(#p,charindex('\n',#p,0)+2, LEN(#p)-charindex('\n',#p,0)-1);
end
select #p;
fetch next from c into #p;
end
DEALLOCATE c
i tested this using
create table a (a varchar(50))
insert into a values ('a\nb\nc')
insert into a values ('d\ne\nf')

Answer 2

use this..
ALTER FUNCTION [dbo].[GetWordsFromString]
(
#string nvarchar(max)
)
RETURNS
#out TABLE
(
Name nvarchar(200)
)
AS
BEGIN
DECLARE #pos int,
#nextpos int,
#valuelen int
SELECT #pos = 0, #nextpos = 1
WHILE #nextpos > 0
BEGIN
SELECT #nextpos = charindex('\', #string, #pos + 1)
SELECT #valuelen = CASE WHEN #nextpos > 0
THEN #nextpos
ELSE len(#string) + 1
END - #pos - 1
INSERT #out
VALUES (convert(nvarchar, substring(#string, #pos + 1, #valuelen)))
SELECT #pos = #nextpos
END
RETURN
END