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Ladies and Gentlemen,

I am pleased to offer, free of charge, the following string functions Transact-SQL:

AT(): Returns the beginning numeric position of the nth occurrence of a character expression
      within another character expression, counting from the leftmost character (including overlaps).
	  The search performed by AT() is case-sensitive. AT similar to the Oracle function INSTR.
RAT(): Returns the numeric position of the last (rightmost) occurrence of a character string within
       another character string (including overlaps). The search performed by RAT() is case-sensitive.
ATC(): Returns the beginning numeric position of the first occurrence of a character expression within
       another character expression, counting from the leftmost character (including overlaps).
	   The search performed by ATC() is case-insensitive. ATC similar to the Oracle function INSTR.
RATC(): Returns the numeric position of the last (rightmost) occurrence of a character string within
        another character string (including overlaps). The search performed by RATC() is case-insensitive.
AT2(): Returns the beginning numeric position of the first occurrence of a character expression within
       another character expression, counting from the leftmost character (excluding overlaps).
	   The search performed by AT2() is case-sensitive. AT2 similar to the Oracle function INSTR.
ATC2(): Returns the beginning numeric position of the first occurrence of a character expression within
        another character expression, counting from the leftmost character (excluding overlaps).
		The search performed by ATC2() is case-insensitive. ATC similar to the Oracle function INSTR.
OCCURS(): Returns the number of times a character expression occurs within another character expression
         (including overlaps).
OCCURS2(): Returns the number of times a character expression occurs within another character expression
          (excluding overlaps). OCCURS2 is faster than OCCURS.
PADL(): Returns a string from an expression, padded with spaces or characters
        to a specified length on the left side. PADL similar to the Oracle function LPAD.
PADR(): Returns a string from an expression, padded with spaces or characters
        to a specified length on the right side. PADR similar to the Oracle function RPAD.
PADC(): Returns a string from an expression, padded with spaces or characters
        to a specified length on the both sides. 
CHRTRAN(): Replaces each character in a character expression that matches a character in a second character
           expression with the corresponding character in a third character expression.
  	       CHRTRAN similar to the Oracle function TRANSLATE.
STRTRAN(): Searches a character expression for occurrences of a second character expression,
           and then replaces each occurrence with a third character expression.
		   Unlike a built-in function Replace, STRTRAN has three additional parameters to help refine searches.
STRFILTER(): Removes all characters from a string except those specified. 
GETWORDCOUNT(): Counts the words in a string. 
GETWORDNUM(): Returns a specified word from a string.
GETALLWORDS(): Inserts the words from a string into the table.
PROPER(): Returns from a character expression a string capitalized as appropriate for proper names. 

RCHARINDEX(): Similar to the Transact-SQL function Charindex, with a Right search.
ARABTOROMAN(): Returns the character Roman numeral equivalent of a specified numeric expression (from 1 to 3999).
ROMANTOARAB(): Returns the number equivalent of a specified character Roman numeral expression (from I to MMMCMXCIX).


AT, PADL, PADR, CHRTRAN, PROPER:  Similar to the Oracle functions PL/SQL INSTR, LPAD, RPAD, TRANSLATE, INITCAP.

More than  15000 people have already downloaded my functions.  I hope you will find them useful as well.