Question

how to parse a column in mysql table like <14-abc>;<8-def>;
as:

abc =14
def = 8

abc store value 14 and def stores values 8 and have multiple entries.

So need to store like array or list that should be able to access and
process the parsed data later.

Answer 1

I’m not aware of any parser that support this syntax, so you could write your own parser for something so trivial. Here’s an example, not tested:

$row = ' <14-abc>;<8-def>; ';

$output = Array();
$entries = explode(';', $row);              //Split the row by every ';' delimiter
foreach ($entries as $item) {               //For each entries
    if (!empty($item)) {                    //Make sure the item isn't empty (last entry might be)
        $item = str_replace(' ','',$item);  //Remove useless char
        $item = str_replace('<','',$item);  //Remove useless char
        $item = str_replace('>','',$item);  //Remove useless char
        $params = explode('-', $item);      //Again, subsplit the key and the value from the item
        $output[$params[1]] = $params[0];   //Push them into an array
    }
}

Then you can use your awesome array like so:

foreach ($output as $key=>$value) {
    echo $key.'='.$value;
}

The input is a $row string, the output is a $output array. You can even wrap it into a function 😉