> What do you mean by "parse" ? Just to separate a string into its delimited > substrings ? Since SQLite has no array or list variable-type there's no way > to do that because there's no way to return the result. Can you not just > return the value retrieved from the table and parse it in your software ? > > You can add your own functions to SQLite, so you could write your own parse > function and do something like > > SELECT parse(myColumn) FROM myTable > > However this is quite complicated and not recommended for the beginner.
The fields in question have content as follows: string1\\string2\\string3\\...\\stringx I want to write every record's entries to a table with each element being a separate record i.e. string1 string2 string3 . . . stringx When done writing that table I'll use select distinct to obtain a unique list of that attribute and it becomes my reference/ lookup table.
