Split delimited string value into rows

Question

Some external data vendor wants to give me a data field - pipe delimited string value, which I find quite difficult to deal with.

Without help from an application pr

Answer 1

It may not be as difficult as I initially thought.

This is a general approach:

1. Count number of occurrences of the delimiter length(val) - length(replace(val, '|', ''))
2. Loop a number of times, each time grab a new delimited value and insert the value to a second table.