Split string in Oracle with regexp_substr in order

Question

I have a string in Oracle database, my string is: \'bbb;aaa;qqq;ccc\'

I used regexp for split my string:

select distinct trim(regexp_substr(\'bbb;aaa;qqq         


        

Answer 1

You don't need a DISTINCT to get your result; besides, to get the result in a given order, all you need is an ORDER BY clause:

select trim(regexp_substr('bbb;aaa;qqq;ccc','[^;]+', 1,level) ) as q 
from dual
connect by regexp_substr('bbb;aaa;qqq;ccc', '[^;]+', 1, level) is not null
order by level