<ul><li>There are four strings separated into two parts by vertical bar, namely: ID|DUE_DATE, 80781|2026–12–01, VARCHAR2|DATE, |yyyy-mm-dd.</li><li>The task is to generate a four-field result set by extracting the first and second parts of each string and writing them as separate records.</li><li>While SQL has limited string functions and lacks set related functions, SPL has built-in string processing functions that can parse strings into batch records.</li><li>esProc SPL is a suitable solution as it supports ordered sets and allows direct retrieval of set members by position.</li></ul>

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