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 string individually.

0<first<5   and  1<second<3  and  2<third<4 

I get that I could return all queries and split it myself and compare it myself. I'm curious if there is a way to do this so mysql does that processing work. Thanks!

Answer 1

Use

substring_index(`column`,',',1) ==> first value
substring_index(substring_index(`column`,',',-2),',',1)=> second value
substring_index(substring_index(`column`,',',-1),',',1)=> third value

in your where clause.

SELECT * FROM `table`
WHERE 
substring_index(`column`,',',1)<0 
AND
substring_index(`column`,',',1)>5