Question

I have a requirement where I need to check a pipe | in the database. If found I need to play around differently.

Here how my db table looks like //Please check the | character in row 11

And if I run a group by sql command myresult will be

Which is correct.

But my requirement is to break the | in any cell and give the count accordingly. The expected result as

Can this be done using MySQL commands alone or do I need to use some php script as well?

Any snippet will be helpful.

Answer 1

Hope this script might help u

$frt =array();
$stmt = $mysqli->prepare("select `fruits` from `meva`") or $mysqli->error ;
$stmt->execute();
$stmt->bind_result($fruits);
 while ($stmt->fetch()) {
    $frt[]=$fruits;
  }

// var_dump($frt); //check all the fruits is in array  
 $res = array();
 $tot = count($frt);
 for($i=0;$i<=$tot;$i++)
  {

    if(preg_match("/\|/", $frt[$i]))
        {
    $res[] =explode( '|', $frt[$i]);
        }else
        {
    $res[] = $frt[$i];
        }
  }

 // var_dump($res);

$it = new RecursiveIteratorIterator(new RecursiveArrayIterator($res));
foreach($it as $v) {
  $ary[]=$v;
 }

    $all_fruits = array();
    $tot_ary = count($ary);
  for($io=0;$io<=$tot_ary;$io++)
    {
      if(isset($ary[$io])!='')
    {
     $all_fruits[] = trim($ary[$io]);
    }else
    {
      continue;
    }
    }
 // var_dump($all_fruits);

$newArray = array_count_values($all_fruits);

foreach ($newArray as $key => $value) {
        echo "$key - <strong>$value</strong> <br />"; 
}