Function of a Function

• Sql Junkie-204042

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  November 7, 2005 at 1:23 pm

  #88481

  I have a function that returns a string of order numbers delimited with ';'  

  SELECT dbo.getSOs(121616) returns string of orders for the input customer 121616

  "123;345;456;678;"

  I am trying to using the Split function from

  http://qa.sqlservercentral.com/scripts/contributions/225.asp

  to return a table of ints. Both functions independly work fine

  SELECT * FROM dbo.SplitToInt("123;345;456;678;",";") return a table of ints.

  When I run this query (for Customer 121616) 

  SELECT * FROM dbo.SplitToInt(dbo.getSOs(121616),';')

  I get an error "Incorrect syntax near '.'"

  What am I doing wrong ?

   

• Sergiy

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  November 7, 2005 at 2:44 pm

  #602692

  You cannot use function call as a parameter for anither function. It's wrong syntax.

  DECLARE @String varchar(100)

  SELECT @String =dbo.getSOs(121616)

  SELECT * FROM dbo.SplitToInt(@String,';')

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