DELIMITER $$

DROP PROCEDURE IF EXISTS `split_string` $$
CREATE DEFINER=`root`@`localhost` PROCEDURE `split_string`()
BEGIN

DECLARE my_delimiter CHAR(1);
DECLARE split_string varchar(255);
DECLARE done INT;
DECLARE occurance INT;
DECLARE i INT;
DECLARE split_id INT;
DECLARE ins_query VARCHAR(500);
DECLARE splitter_cur CURSOR FOR
SELECT id,cat from tmp;

DECLARE CONTINUE HANDLER FOR NOT FOUND SET done=1;

DROP TEMPORARY TABLE IF EXISTS `my_splits`;
CREATE TEMPORARY TABLE `my_splits` (
  `splitted_column` varchar(45) NOT NULL,
  `id` int(10) default NULL
) ENGINE=MyISAM DEFAULT CHARSET=latin1;


OPEN splitter_cur;
splitter_loop:LOOP
      FETCH splitter_cur INTO split_id,split_string;

SET occurance=length(split_string)-length(replace(split_string,';',''))+1;
SET my_delimiter=';';
  IF done=1 THEN
    LEAVE splitter_loop;
  END IF;
#  select occurance;
  IF occurance > 0 then
    #select occurance;
    set i=1;
    while i <= occurance do
#        select concat("SUBSTRING_INDEX(SUBSTRING_INDEX( '",split_string ,"', '",my_delimiter,"', ",i, "),'",my_delimiter,"',-1);");
        SET ins_query=concat("insert into my_splits(splitted_column,id) values(", concat("SUBSTRING_INDEX(SUBSTRING_INDEX( '",split_string ,"', '",my_delimiter,"', ",i, "),'",my_delimiter,"',-1),",split_id,");"));
#    select ins_query;
        set @ins_query=ins_query;
        PREPARE ins_query from @ins_query;
        EXECUTE ins_query;
      set i=i+1;
    end while;
  ELSE
        set ins_query=concat("insert into my_splits(splitted_column,id) values(",split_string,"',",split_id,");");
        set @ins_query=ins_query;
        PREPARE ins_query from @ins_query;
        EXECUTE ins_query;
  END IF;
  set occurance=0;
END LOOP;

CLOSE splitter_cur;

END $$

DELIMITER ;
