Extract lower case characters

I need to split a string in two if there are lowercase characters at
the end of it.

For example:
'AAPLpr' becomes 'AAPL' and 'pr'
'Ta' becomes 'T' and 'a'
'MSFT' becomes 'MSFT' and ''
'TAPA' becomes 'TAPA' and ''

I am using SQL 2000. I read about "collate Latin1_General_CS_AS" but
not sure if I can use that outside of a select statement.

Thank you in advance for any help.You can specify a case-sensitive collation either on the column definition:

CREATE TABLE SomeTable (x VARCHAR(6) COLLATE Latin1_General_CS_AS PRIMARY
KEY)

INSERT INTO SomeTable VALUES ('AAPLpr')
INSERT INTO SomeTable VALUES ('Ta')
INSERT INTO SomeTable VALUES ('MSFT')
INSERT INTO SomeTable VALUES ('TAPA')
INSERT INTO SomeTable VALUES ('AbCdE')

SELECT
LEFT(x,PATINDEX('%[abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz]%',x+'a')-1),
SUBSTRING(x,PATINDEX('%[abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz]%',x+'a'),LEN(x))
FROM SomeTable

Or, as part of a string expression:

SELECT
LEFT(x, PATINDEX('%[abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz]%'
COLLATE Latin1_General_CS_AS,x+'a')-1),
SUBSTRING(x, PATINDEX('%[abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz]%'
COLLATE Latin1_General_CS_AS,x+'a'),LEN(x))
FROM SomeTable

Result:

-- --
AAPL pr
A bCdE
MSFT
T a
TAPA

--
David Portas
SQL Server MVP
--|||"David Portas" <REMOVE_BEFORE_REPLYING_dportas@.acm.org> wrote in message news:<xfKdneMR5PHz97zdRVn-hw@.giganews.com>...
> You can specify a case-sensitive collation either on the column definition:
> CREATE TABLE SomeTable (x VARCHAR(6) COLLATE Latin1_General_CS_AS PRIMARY
> KEY)
> INSERT INTO SomeTable VALUES ('AAPLpr')
> INSERT INTO SomeTable VALUES ('Ta')
> INSERT INTO SomeTable VALUES ('MSFT')
> INSERT INTO SomeTable VALUES ('TAPA')
> INSERT INTO SomeTable VALUES ('AbCdE')
> SELECT
> LEFT(x,PATINDEX('%[abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz]%',x+'a')-1),
> SUBSTRING(x,PATINDEX('%[abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz]%',x+'a'),LEN(x))
> FROM SomeTable
> Or, as part of a string expression:
> SELECT
> LEFT(x, PATINDEX('%[abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz]%'
> COLLATE Latin1_General_CS_AS,x+'a')-1),
> SUBSTRING(x, PATINDEX('%[abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz]%'
> COLLATE Latin1_General_CS_AS,x+'a'),LEN(x))
> FROM SomeTable
> Result:
> -- --
> AAPL pr
> A bCdE
> MSFT
> T a
> TAPA

Wonderful. Thank you for your help.sql