Can you split/explode a field in a MySQL query?

Question

I have to create a report on some student completions. The students each belong to one client. Here are the tables (simplified for this question).

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Answer 1

Based on Alex answer above (https://stackoverflow.com/a/11022431/1466341) I came up with even better solution. Solution which doesn't contain exact one record ID.

Assuming that the comma separated list is in table data.list, and it contains listing of codes from other table classification.code, you can do something like:

SELECT 
    d.id, d.list, c.code
FROM 
    classification c
    JOIN data d
        ON d.list REGEXP CONCAT('[[:<:]]', c.code, '[[:>:]]');

So if you have tables and data like this:

CLASSIFICATION (code varchar(4) unique): ('A'), ('B'), ('C'), ('D')
MY_DATA (id int, list varchar(255)): (100, 'C,A,B'), (150, 'B,A,D'), (200,'B')

above SELECT will return

(100, 'C,A,B', 'A'),
(100, 'C,A,B', 'B'),
(100, 'C,A,B', 'C'),
(150, 'B,A,D', 'A'),
(150, 'B,A,D', 'B'),
(150, 'B,A,D', 'D'),
(200, 'B', 'B'),