Split string based on number of characters

Hi,
I have a simple map where I receive a Streetname out of the source and have to write that streetname to the Address1 element in the destination. The issue is that the destination Address1 element can only contain 100 characters.
If it has more then 100 characters then I have to split the string into the Address2 element.
The next question is how I can do it the good way so that the string would be split between spaces and not in the middle of a word. For example:
Streetname1 Streetname2 Streetname3 Streetname4 Streetname5 Streetname6 Streetname7 Streetname8 Streetname9
The hundredth character is between t and r in Streetname9. So the cleanest solution would be to place everything in address1 and Streetname9 in address 2.
How can I achieve this?

I had faced a similar situation in which output element could only contain 100 characters after that i had to split rest of characters in batch of 100 characters and repeated the element.
This was achieved by implementing recursion through XSLT. For this I created a template which will return a substring a generate an element with that element. This template will take two parameters-1) Complete string 2) Length (100 in your case).
check the below article for a sample
http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/16866/Recursive-XSL-Templates
Thanks,
Prashant
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Use Master
Go
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As
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DECLARE @AllData TABLE
[Column 0] VARCHAR(50)
INSERT INTO @AllData
VALUES('20150101 04559690 45 33')
INSERT INTO @AllData
VALUES('20150101 045595320 42 48')
INSERT INTO @AllData
VALUES('20150101 041198690 44 34')
INSERT INTO @AllData
VALUES('20150101 0455222130 41 49')
INSERT INTO @AllData
VALUES('20150101 554567450 40 51')
;WITH CTE
AS
SELECT
,Row_Number() OVER(PARTITION BY MainQry.[Column 0] ORDER BY MainQry.[Column 0]) As RowNo
FROM
@AllData As mainQry
CROSS APPLY (SELECT Item FROM Master.dbo.udf_SplitString(REPLACE(MainQry.[Column 0], CHAR(9), ' '), ' ')) As SubQry
SELECT
[Column 0]
,MAX(CASE WHEN RowNo = 1 THEN Item ELSE '' END) AS [DATE]
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| ID
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41 49
| 20150101
| 0455222130
| 41 | 49
20150101 554567450
40 51
| 20150101
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| 20150101
| 041198690
| 44 | 34
20150101 045595320 42 48
| 20150101
| 045595320
| 42 | 48
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| 20150101
| 04559690 | 45
| 33
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