Hi,

On Wed, Jan 13, 2016 at 10:05 AM, Jim Morris <jimm at bearriver.com> wrote:
> Might be doable with a recursive CTE
>
> On 1/13/2016 1:22 AM, Bart Smissaert wrote:
>>
>> It probably can be done with just SQLite's built-in text functions such as
>> instr and substr,
>> although with 20 to 30 items it may get a bit messy and complex.
>>
>> RBS
>>
>> On Wed, Jan 13, 2016 at 5:42 AM, audio muze <audiomuze at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> I have a table of roughly 500k records with a number of fields
>>> containing delimited text that needs to be parsed and written to
>>> separate tables as a master lists.  In order to do this I need to
>>> parse the field contents, however, I don't see any functions within
>>> SQLite to enable that.  The number of delimited entries embedded in a
>>> field can vary from none to as man as 20/30.  Is there an addin I can
>>> compile with SQLite that provides the ability to parse a string?

You are way better off with a Perl script.

Thank you.

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