Function resembling the work of Explode in MySQL

Question

Is there any function in MySQL to explode data of a column and then retrieve it? Like if a column data is P:12 , then can the data be exploded on \':\' and then read?

Answer 1

Here are many discussion about the SPLIT problem in mysql :

http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/string-functions.html