Hi all, I have a table with a text field (let's call it 'A') - in this field are descriptions of various things. I also have another table with a varchar field (let's call this 'B'). What I need to do is to take the text field for each record in table A and split it into seperate words. I need to insert each word from this field into table B as an individual record. Let me illustrate with an example. I'm trying to transform records like this: "This is a description of a widget." Into seperate records like this: "This" "is" "a" "description" "of" "a" "widget" I've been trying to figure out how I could accomplish this with just MySQL alone (maybe with the aid some shell utilities), without resorting to writing a PHP/Perl script - but I've come up blank. Can anyone offer any ideas (or maybe solutions) for my problem? Regards, ------------------------------------------------ Basil Hussain ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) --------------------------------------------------------------------- Before posting, please check: http://www.mysql.com/manual.php (the manual) http://lists.mysql.com/ (the list archive) To request this thread, e-mail <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, e-mail <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Trouble unsubscribing? Try: http://lists.mysql.com/php/unsubscribe.php
