MySQL FIND_IN_SET Usage

MySQL手册中FIND_IN_SET函数的语法:

FIND_IN_SET(str, strlist)

Returns a value in the range of 1 to N if the string str is in the string list strlist consisting of N substrings. A string list is a string composed of substrings separated by “,” characters. If the first argument is a constant string and the second is a column of type SET, the FIND_IN_SET() function is optimized to use bit arithmetic. Returns 0 if str is not in strlist or if strlist is the empty string. Returns NULL if either argument is NULL. This function does not work properly if the first argument contains a comma (“,”) character.

假如字符串str 在由N 子链组成的字符串列表strlist 中，则返回值的范围在 1 到 N 之间。
一个字符串列表就是一个由一些被‘,’符号分开的子链组成的字符串。如果第一个参数是一个常数字符串，而第二个是type SET列，则   FIND_IN_SET() 函数被优化，使用比特计算。
如果str不在strlist 或strlist 为空字符串，则返回值为 0 。如任意一个参数为NULL，则返回值为 NULL。这个函数在第一个参数包含一个逗号(‘,’)时将无法正常运行。

例如：

mysql> SELECT FIND_IN_SET('b','a,b,c,d');
        -> 2

SUBSTRING_INDEX(_<code>str,delim,count_)

Returns the substring from string str before count occurrences of the delimiter delim. If count is positive, everything to the left of the final delimiter (counting from the left) is returned. If count is negative, everything to the right of the final delimiter (counting from the right) is returned. SUBSTRING_INDEX() performs a case-sensitive match when searching for delim.

mysql> SELECT SUBSTRING_INDEX('www.mysql.com', '.', 2);
        -> 'www.mysql'
mysql> SELECT SUBSTRING_INDEX('www.mysql.com', '.', -2);
        -> 'mysql.com'

This function is multibyte safe.

 

MySQL中使用WHERE IN进行条件查询的时候，一般情况下，查询的结果和IN中值的顺序并不一致。

有两种方式可以对IN查询的结果进行排序。一种是ORDER BY FIND_IN_SET，另外一种是ORDER BY SUBSTRING_INDEX。