SQL search column where one item in column is substring of another item

Question

Is there a way to for an sql statement to search if a column string with multiple items contains a certain item, but not include a certain item that is a substring. The fol

Answer 1

select * 
from tbltest
where (platform like 'item%' or platform like '% item%') 
and (platform like '%item' or platform like '%item %')

What this does is check whether the item is surrounded by spaces, the beginning and/or the ending of the string.

A requirement would be that there's no item with a space and you always split on a space. Otherwise you'd need another char to split on.