SQL Server 2008 Beginner Script Question On: Delimited Strings with Substrings and case statements

I am trying to take a data string from one column and split it into several different columns. The question is I need to use a space (' ') as a delimiter and I'm not sure how? Also, I would need to incor开发者_运维问答porate case statements (I'm assumeing) in order to split with a substring in other areas.

Eample: Name Account 445566 0010020056893010445478008 AFD 369 I can use space as delimiter up to the point of the 001002... data string. That has to be futher broken down. Also, If I'm using space as a delimiter when I hit an area with multiple spaces how do I avoid empty columns?

Here's a split table-function:

CREATE FUNCTION [dbo].[Split]
(   
 @String varchar(max)
,@Delimiter char
)
RETURNS @Results table
(
 Ordinal int
,StringValue varchar(max)
)
as
begin

    set @String = isnull(@String,'')
    set @Delimiter = isnull(@Delimiter,'')

    declare
     @TempString varchar(max) = @String
    ,@Ordinal int = 0
    ,@CharIndex int = 0

    set @CharIndex = charindex(@Delimiter, @TempString)
    while @CharIndex != 0 begin     
        set @Ordinal += 1       
        insert @Results values
        (
         @Ordinal
        ,substring(@TempString, 0, @CharIndex)
        )       
        set @TempString = substring(@TempString, @CharIndex + 1, len(@TempString) - @CharIndex)     
        set @CharIndex = charindex(@Delimiter, @TempString)
    end

    if @TempString != '' begin
        set @Ordinal += 1 
        insert @Results values
        (
         @Ordinal
        ,@TempString
        )
    end

    return
end

Usage:

select
s.*
from dbo.Split('445566          0010020056893010445478008 AFD 369', ' ') as s
where s.StringValue != '' -- this condition will drop your extra spaces

Yields:

Ordinal    StringValue
1   445566
11  0010020056893010445478008
12  AFD
13  369

Which you can break down further if necessary.