Split comma separated values to columns in Oracle

Question

I have values being returned with 255 comma separated values. Is there an easy way to split those into columns without having 255 substr?

ROW  | VAL
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Answer 1

hierarchical query could be used. pivoting can be done with case and group by.

with value_t as
( 
  select row_t,row_number() OVER (partition by row_t order by rownum )rn,
  regexp_substr(val, '[^,]+', 1, LEVEL) val from Table1
CONNECT BY LEVEL <= regexp_count(val, '[^,]+') 
AND prior row_t = row_t 
AND prior sys_guid() is not null
  ) select row_t, max( case when rn = 1 THEN val end ) val_1,
  max( case when rn = 2 THEN val end ) val_2,
  max( case when rn = 3 THEN val end ) val_3
  from value_t
  group by row_t;