Creating a MySQL SET's from a string

Question

Is there a way to create a set from a string of separated values in MySQL? For example:

\'the,quick,brown,fox\' => \'the\',\'quick\',\'brown\',\'fox\'

A

Answer 1

You could split the text into separate elements, read into a temp table, and then select the result.

e.g.

http://forums.mysql.com/read.php?60,78776,242420#msg-242420