Simon Willison’s Weblog

1st February 2021

TIL Splitting on commas in SQLite — I had an input string in `x,y,z` format and I needed to split it into three separate values in SQLite. I managed to do it using a confusing combination of the `instr()` and `substr()` functions.

Posted 1st February 2021 at 7:02 pm

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