Question

I have a MySQL table containing several fields; like this:

id  name  ton           dyr
1   moo   FRET_GTR_HYU  ra
2   maa   DER_GY_TR_DB  fe
3   tee   SAME_IQ       tete
...

The question is that the contents for every row of the column ton are independent, but they are joined with a symbol “_”.

I would like to modify the table, splitting the field ton to end up keeping all the same entries in the other fields, but just one entry per row in the ton field, like this…

id  name  ton      dyr
1   moo   FRET     ra
1   moo   GTR      ra
1   moo   HYU      ra
2   maa   DER      fe
2   maa   GY       fe
2   maa   TR       fe
2   maa   DB       fe
3   tee   SAME     tete
3   tee   IQ       tete

...

I tried to modify the code given in this page to perform the job, but as i’m not that expert in MySQL, i am not able to get it to work my way. In the link above, the code is given suitable to rewrite the two columns given, not any other fields.

Any help on how to modify the code, or do it another way?

Answer 1

1) Copy table1 structure to table2

2) Add the 2 stored procedures to your database.

CREATE PROCEDURE peixe()
BEGIN
  DECLARE done BOOLEAN DEFAULT 0;
  DECLARE i INT;
  DECLARE cursor_id CURSOR FOR SELECT id FROM table1 WHERE ton LIKE '%_%';
  DECLARE CONTINUE HANDLER FOR SQLSTATE '02000' SET done=1;
  OPEN cursor_id;
  FETCH cursor_id INTO i;
  REPEAT
    CALL split_ton(i);
    FETCH cursor_id INTO i;
  UNTIL done END REPEAT;
  CLOSE cursor_id;
END

CREATE PROCEDURE split_ton(i INT)
BEGIN
  DECLARE str_name VARCHAR(50);
  DECLARE str_ton VARCHAR(50);
  DECLARE str_ton_el VARCHAR(50);
  DECLARE str_dyr VARCHAR(50);
  DECLARE ton_size INT;

  SELECT name, ton, dyr
  INTO str_name, str_ton, str_dyr
  FROM table1 WHERE id=i;

  SET ton_size = LENGTH(str_ton) - LENGTH(REPLACE(str_ton, '_', '')) + 1;

  WHILE ton_size > 0 DO
    SET str_ton_el = SUBSTRING_INDEX(str_ton, '_', -1);
    SET str_ton = SUBSTRING_INDEX(str_ton, '_', ton_size - 1);
    INSERT INTO table2 (id, name, ton, dyr) VALUES (i, str_name, str_ton_el, str_dyr);
    SET ton_size = ton_size - 1;
  END WHILE;
END

3) Finally, execute the following statement :

CALL peixe

And I think, you’re done 🙂