Like Mikael Eriksson said, there is answer at dba.stackexchange.com with two very good solutions, first with use of sa_split_list system procedure, and second slower with CAST statement.
For the Sybase SQL Anywhere 9 sa_split_list system procedure not exist, so I have made sa_split_list system procedure replacement (I used parts of the code from bsivel answer):
CREATE PROCEDURE str_split_list
(in str long varchar, in delim char(10) default ',')
RESULT(
line_num integer,
row_value long varchar)
BEGIN
DECLARE str2 long varchar;
DECLARE position integer;
CREATE TABLE #str_split_list (
line_num integer DEFAULT AUTOINCREMENT,
row_value long varchar null,
primary key(line_num));
SET str = TRIM(str) || delim;
SET position = CHARINDEX(delim, str);
separaterows:
WHILE position > 0 loop
SET str2 = TRIM(LEFT(str, position - 1));
INSERT INTO #str_split_list (row_value)
VALUES (str2);
SET str = RIGHT(str, LENGTH(str) - position);
SET position = CHARINDEX(delim, str);
end loop separaterows;
select * from #str_split_list order by line_num asc;
END
Execute the same way as sa_split_list with default delimiter ,:
select * from str_split_list('1234,23,56,576,1231,567,122,87876,57553,1216')
or with specified delimiter which can be changed:
select * from str_split_list('1234,23,56,576,1231,567,122,87876,57553,1216', ',')
