Ho to Split String using query and return an array ?

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    I need help in solving a query.

    In Hobbies column of Employee table , different Hobbies of each employee is stored. An example is as shown below
    "Reading,Sports,Trekking"

    I need a query to split the string and find the second hobby of an employee. I tried instr to find ",". But was not not able to proceed beyond that. Can anyone suggest a query to split a string and return as array.
     
    a4academics, May 14, 2013 IP
  2. abhijitnumber1

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    $a = strstr('Reading,Sports,Trekking', ',');//get the first [SIZE=14px][FONT=verdana][COLOR=#000000]occurrence of a string ( ,Sports,Trekking)[/COLOR][/FONT][/SIZE]
 
$b = explode(',',trim($a, ','));//delete the ' , ' from both side, split the string by ',' & store the value in variable $b
echo $b[0];
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    abhijitnumber1, Jul 3, 2013 IP