Split mysql column into multiple rows

Question

I have below structure in mysql database:

EMAIL       PERMISSIONS
a@b         {app1: perm1; perm2; perm3};{app2: perm4; perm5; perm6}

I would like to use a query that will return the data in below format, in 3 columns:

a@b         app1        perm1
a@b         app1        perm2
a@b         app1        perm3
a@b         app2        perm4
a@b         app2        perm5
a@b         app2        perm6

Can be more than 3 permissions per each application.

Thank you

Answer 1

Schema (MySQL v8.0)

CREATE TABLE my_bad_data
(email VARCHAR(12) NOT NULL
,permissions VARCHAR(250) NOT NULL
);

INSERT INTO my_bad_data VALUES
('a@b','{app1: perm1; perm2; perm3};{app2: perm4; perm5; perm6}');

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Query #1

WITH RECURSIVE cte (n) AS
(
  SELECT 1
  UNION ALL
  SELECT n + 1 FROM cte WHERE n < 50
)
SELECT DISTINCT
       a.email
     , a.app
     , SUBSTRING_INDEX(SUBSTRING_INDEX(a.perms,';',n),';',-1) perm
  FROM 
     ( SELECT DISTINCT 
              email
            , SUBSTRING_INDEX(REPLACE(REPLACE(SUBSTRING_INDEX(SUBSTRING_INDEX(permissions,'};{',n),'};{',-1),'{',''),'}',''),':',1)app 
            , SUBSTRING_INDEX(REPLACE(REPLACE(SUBSTRING_INDEX(SUBSTRING_INDEX(permissions,'};{',n),'};{',-1),'{',''),'}',''),':',-1)perms 
         FROM my_bad_data
            , cte
      ) a
   JOIN cte;

email	app	perm
a@b	app1	perm1
a@b	app2	perm4
a@b	app1	perm2
a@b	app2	perm5
a@b	app1	perm3
a@b	app2	perm6

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