Can Mysql Split a column?

Question

I have a column that has comma separated data:

1,2,3
3,2,1
4,5,6
5,5,5

I\'m trying to run a search that would query each value of the CSV s

Answer 1

As an addendum to this, I've strings of the form: Some words 303

where I'd like to split off the numerical part from the tail of the string. This seems to point to a possible solution:

http://lists.mysql.com/mysql/222421

The problem however, is that you only get the answer "yes, it matches", and not the start index of the regexp match.