SPLIT_PART
Applies to ✅ Open Source Edition ✅ Express Edition ✅ Professional Edition ✅ Enterprise Edition
The SPLIT_PART() function splits a string into substrings and retrieves the nth part, starting from 1.
SELECT split_part('a,b,c', ',', 2);
create.select(splitPart(val("a,b,c"), ",", 2)).fetch();
The result being
+------------+ | split_part | +------------+ | b | +------------+
Dialect support
This example using jOOQ:
splitPart(val("a,b,c"), ",", 2)
Translates to the following dialect specific expressions:
Aurora MySQL, MariaDB, MemSQL, MySQL
substring(
substring_index('a,b,c', ',', 2),
CASE 2
WHEN 1 THEN 1
ELSE (char_length(substring_index(
'a,b,c',
',',
(2 - 1)
)) + char_length(',') + 1)
END
)
Aurora Postgres, CockroachDB, Postgres, Redshift, Snowflake, Trino, Vertica, YugabyteDB
split_part('a,b,c', ',', 2)
BigQuery
split('a,b,c', ',')[ORDINAL(2)]
DB2, Oracle
coalesce(
substr(
'a,b,c',
nullif(
decode(
2,
1,
1,
(nullif(
instr(
'a,b,c',
',',
1,
nullif(
(2 - 1),
0
)
),
0
) + length(','))
),
(length('a,b,c') + 1)
),
coalesce(
(nullif(
instr('a,b,c', ',', 1, 2),
0
) - decode(
2,
1,
1,
(nullif(
instr(
'a,b,c',
',',
1,
nullif(
(2 - 1),
0
)
),
0
) + length(','))
)),
((length('a,b,c') - nullif(
instr(
'a,b,c',
',',
1,
nullif(
(2 - 1),
0
)
),
0
)) - (length(',') - 1))
)
),
''
)
DuckDB
(str_split('a,b,c', ','))[2]
SQLServer
coalesce(
(
SELECT value
FROM string_split('a,b,c', ',', 1)
WHERE ordinal = 2
),
''
)
Teradata
strtok('a,b,c', ',', 2)
ASE, Access, ClickHouse, Derby, Exasol, Firebird, H2, HSQLDB, Hana, Informix, SQLDataWarehouse, SQLite, Sybase
/* UNSUPPORTED */
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