Split Field values

Question

Hi all, I need a little help to extract all the string within and including the brackets and output them into separate columns and into a final table please. Here is an example of some of the fields in the source table.

 CREATE TABLE TableName   

     (FieldName nvarchar(max))   

       

 INSERT INTO dbo.TableName   

       

 SELECT 'Urology Consultants OSSD (GSD)' UNION   

 SELECT 'Speech and Lang Speech Recdd (BSDF)' UNION   

 SELECT 'Psychology Con Speech Recdd (FD)' UNION   

 SELECT 'Immunology/Allergy Consultant (HRB)' UNION   

 SELECT 'Gastro Endoscopy Nurseses (HRB)' UNION   

 SELECT 'Histology-Cellular Pathology Speech Reced (WFSP)'     

       

 SELECT *    

 FROM dbo.TableName   

I would like the output to be like the below.

thanks,

Answer 1

How is this different from your other question? The solution is the same.

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/answers/questions/329869/extract-string-within-brackets.html

Answer 2

Hi @Joseph s ，

Welcome to Microsoft Q&A!

Please refer your previous post mentioned by other experts which is similar with this post. You could only replace '[]' with '()' in the queries.

Please also refer below:

SELECT *,LEFT(FieldName,CHARINDEX('(',FieldName)-2) COL1,  
SUBSTRING(FieldName,CHARINDEX('(',FieldName)+1,LEN(FieldName)-CHARINDEX('(',FieldName)-1) COL2  
FROM dbo.TableName   

If '(' is missing in some rows, you could refer below:

SELECT *,CASE WHEN CHARINDEX('(',FieldName)<>0 THEN LEFT(FieldName,CHARINDEX('(',FieldName)-1) ELSE FieldName END COL1,  
CASE WHEN CHARINDEX('(',FieldName)<>0 THEN SUBSTRING(FieldName,CHARINDEX('(',FieldName)+1,CHARINDEX(')',FieldName)-CHARINDEX('(',FieldName)-1) ELSE '' END COL2  
FROM dbo.TableName   

Output:

If above is still not working, please provide more sample data and expected output.

Thanks for your undertstanding.

Best regards
Melissa

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