Comments on: SQL Puzzle: SQL Advance Query – Create a function to get the string in InitCap Format

By: Samrat

Samrat — Thu, 24 Oct 2019 12:37:21 +0000

CREATE FUNCTION InitCap(@Value VARCHAR(2000))
RETURNS VARCHAR(2000)
AS
BEGIN
DECLARE @R_VALUE VARCHAR(2000)=”

SELECT @R_VALUE+=STRING_AGG(UPPER(SUBSTRING(VALUE,1,1))+LOWER(SUBSTRING(VALUE,2,LEN(VALUE))),’ ‘)
FROM STRING_SPLIT(@Value,’ ‘)

RETURN @R_VALUE
END

By: sqlguru

sqlguru — Sun, 14 Jul 2019 06:43:02 +0000

create function dbo.fn_GetInitCap(@inputStr varchar(255)) returns varchar(255) as
begin
declare @newstr varchar(255);

set @inputStr = replace(@inputStr, ‘ ‘,’~’);
with cte as (
select @inputStr inpt, cast(” as varchar(255)) items
union all
select cast(stuff(inpt,1,iif(PATINDEX(‘%[^a-zA-Z]%’,inpt) > 0, PATINDEX(‘%[^a-zA-Z]%’,inpt),len(inpt) ),”) as varchar(255)), substring(inpt, 1, iif(PATINDEX(‘%[^a-zA-Z]%’,inpt) > 0, PATINDEX(‘%[^a-zA-Z]%’,inpt),len(inpt) )) from cte where inpt ”
) –select * from cte;
, cte2 as(
select items, row_number() over (order by (select null)) rn
from cte
where items ”
) –select * from cte2;
, cte3 as(
select items, rn, cast(” as varchar(1)) ltr, 0 idx from cte2
union all
select stuff(items,1,1,”), rn, substring(items,1,1), idx + 1 from cte3 where items ”
)
select @newstr = replace(
(select ltr2+” from (
select cte3.*, iif(idx=1, upper(ltr),lower(ltr)) ltr2 from cte3
where ltr ”
–order by rn, idx
) t order by rn, idx for xml path(”)),’~’,’ ‘);

return @newstr;

end
go

select dbo.fn_GetInitCap(‘Hi I Am Anvesh Patel Owner Of Dbrnd.Com’);

By: Ashutosh Srivastava

Ashutosh Srivastava — Fri, 05 Jan 2018 06:08:12 +0000

HI Avnesh, Thanks for your explanation. I have one situation i.e. There is one column where 100 records are available. Value is like accountnumber, subaccountnumber etc. I need an output like: Account_Number, Sub_Account_Number.

Could you please help me regarding this.

Regards,
Ashutosh Srivastava