How to split string and save into an array in T-SQL

Question

I am writing a cursor to populate data in new table from main table which contains data in below manner

Item    Colors
Shirt

Answer 1

Using Sql Server 2005+ and the XML datatype, you can have a look at the following

DECLARE @Table TABLE(
        Item VARCHAR(250),
        Colors VARCHAR(250)
)

INSERT INTO @Table SELECT 'Shirt','Red,Blue,Green,Yellow'
INSERT INTO @Table SELECT 'Pants','Black,White'


;WITH Vals AS (
        SELECT  Item,
                CAST('' + REPLACE(Colors, ',', '') + '' AS XML) XmlColumn
        FROM    @Table
)
SELECT  Vals.Item,
        C.value('.','varchar(max)') ColumnValue
FROM    Vals
CROSS APPLY Vals.XmlColumn.nodes('/d') AS T(C)