izbryte Posted March 16, 2011 Share Posted March 16, 2011 I have a field in my MySQL DB that holds numbers separated by a comma (example: 1, 3, 45, 137, 87). I simply want to get a count of how many numbers are in there. (Using my example the result would be 5). I'm sure this is a simple question but I don't know how. I'm able to extract the numbers but I can't get the count to read anything other than 1. Can anyone help? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phpTrainee Posted March 16, 2011 Share Posted March 16, 2011 $pieces = explode(",", $message); $result = count($pieces); Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maq Posted March 16, 2011 Share Posted March 16, 2011 The easiest way is to explode the result in PHP and count the number of elements in the array, not so sure that's the most efficient. I'm also not sure there is an elegant way to do it in SQL. Did a quick search and found a couple hacky solutions. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
izbryte Posted March 16, 2011 Author Share Posted March 16, 2011 Cool, thanks! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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