I want to extract the substrings from a string in mysql. The string contains multiple substrings separated by commas(','). I need to extract these substrings using any mysql functions.
For example :
Table Name: Product
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item_code name colors
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102 ball red,yellow,green
104 balloon yellow,orange,red
I want to select the colors field and extract the substrings as red,yellow and green as separated by comma.
A possible duplicate of this: Split value from one field to two
Unfortunately, MySQL does not feature a split string function.
As in the link above indicates there are User-defined Split function.
A more verbose version to fetch the data can be the following:
SELECT SUBSTRING_INDEX(SUBSTRING_INDEX(colors, ',', 1), ',', -1) as colorfirst,
SUBSTRING_INDEX(SUBSTRING_INDEX(colors, ',', 2), ',', -1) as colorsecond
....
SUBSTRING_INDEX(SUBSTRING_INDEX(colors, ',', n), ',', -1) as colornth
FROM product;
Check the use of SPLIT_STR function here at line 64 to 69
Based on https://blog.fedecarg.com/2009/02/22/mysql-split-string-function/, here is a way to access a value from a delimiter separated array:
/*
usage:
SELECT get_from_delimiter_split_string('1,5,3,7,4', ',', 1); -- returns '5'
SELECT get_from_delimiter_split_string('1,5,3,7,4', ',', 10); -- returns ''
*/
CREATE FUNCTION get_from_delimiter_split_string(
in_array varchar(255),
in_delimiter char(1),
in_index int
)
RETURNS varchar(255) CHARSET utf8mb4 COLLATE utf8mb4_unicode_ci
RETURN REPLACE( -- remove the delimiters after doing the following:
SUBSTRING( -- pick the string
SUBSTRING_INDEX(in_array, in_delimiter, in_index + 1), -- from the string up to index+1 counts of the delimiter
LENGTH(
SUBSTRING_INDEX(in_array, in_delimiter, in_index) -- keeping only everything after index counts of the delimiter
) + 1
),
in_delimiter,
''
);
here are the docs for the string operators for reference: https://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/8.0/en/string-functions.html
