SQL 2005 Split Comma Separated Column on Delimiter

Question

My google searches on how to split a string on a delimiter have resulted in some useful functions for splitting strings when the string is known (i.e. see below):

Answer 1

alter procedure [dbo].[usp_split](@strings varchar(max)) as  
begin  
    Declare @index int  
    set @index=1  
    declare @length int  
    set @length=len(@strings)  
    declare @str varchar(max)  
    declare @diff int  
    declare @Tags table(id varchar(30))  
    while(@index<@length)  
    begin  
        if(@index='1')  
        begin  
            set @str=(SELECT substring(@strings, @index, (charindex(',',(substring(@strings, @index,(@length)))))-1))  
            insert into @Tags values(@str)  
                set @index=(charindex(',',(substring(@strings, @index,(@length)))))  
        end  
        else  
        begin  
            set @diff=@length-@index  
            if(@diff !=0)  
            begin  
                set @str=(select substring(@strings, @index, (charindex(',',(substring(@strings,@index,@diff))))-1))  
                if(@str is not null and @str!='')  
                begin  
                    insert into @Tags VALUES(@str)  
                end  
                set @index=@index +(charindex(',',(substring(@strings, @index,@diff))))  
            end  
        end
    end
    set @str=(select right(@strings,(charindex(',',(substring(reverse(@strings),1,(@length)))))-1)) 
    insert into @Tags VALUES(@str)   
    select id from @Tags  
end

Usage:

exec usp_split '1212,21213,1,3,133,1313131,1,231313,5'