Can Mysql Split a column?

Question

I have a column that has comma separated data:

1,2,3
3,2,1
4,5,6
5,5,5

I\'m trying to run a search that would query each value of the CSV s

Answer 1

Here is another variant I posted on related question. The REGEX check to see if you are out of bounds is useful, so for a table column you would put it in the where clause.

SET @Array = 'one,two,three,four';
SET @ArrayIndex = 2;
SELECT CASE 
    WHEN @Array REGEXP CONCAT('((,).*){',@ArrayIndex,'}') 
    THEN SUBSTRING_INDEX(SUBSTRING_INDEX(@Array,',',@ArrayIndex+1),',',-1) 
    ELSE NULL
END AS Result;

• SUBSTRING_INDEX(string, delim, n) returns the first n
• SUBSTRING_INDEX(string, delim, -1) returns the last only
• REGEXP '((delim).*){n}' checks if there are n delimiters (i.e. you are in bounds)