How to cycle with an array in MySQL?

Question

I'd like to create a stored procedure or a normal query with values passed with an array.

Example:

CREATE PROCEDURE proc() 
BEGIN 
    DECLARE cont INTEGER; 
    DECLARE var ARRAY; 
    SET cont = 0;
    SET var = ("hi", "hello", "good", ...)

    WHILE cont < 12 DO 
        SELECT * FROM tablex
        WHERE name = var[cont];
        SET cont = cont + 1; 
    END WHILE; 
END;

Obviously this is will not work, but I'd like to know how to achieve this.

Answer 1

Try to do it without stored routine -

SET @arr = 'hi,hello,good'; -- your array

SELECT COUNT(*) FROM tablex
  WHERE FIND_IN_SET (name, @arr); -- calculate count

Answer 2

Neither of existing answers worked for me, so I ended up implementing my very own (and very first) MySQL procedure.

PROCEDURE db.loop_through_array()
BEGIN
  DECLARE var varchar(150) DEFAULT 'hi,hello,good';
  DECLARE element varchar(150);

  WHILE var != '' DO
    SET element = SUBSTRING_INDEX(var, ',', 1);      
    SELECT * FROM tablex WHERE name = element;
    
    IF LOCATE(',', var) > 0 THEN
      SET var = SUBSTRING(var, LOCATE(',', var) + 1);
    ELSE
      SET var = '';
    END IF;
  END WHILE;
END

Answer 3

Try something like this:

CREATE PROCEDURE proc()
BEGIN 
    DECLARE cont INTEGER; 
    SET cont = 0;
    CREATE TEMPORARY TABLE array_table (idx INT, value VARCHAR(20));
    INSERT INTO array_table (idx, value) VALUES (1,"hi"),(2,"hello"),(3,"good"),...;
    WHILE cont < 12 DO 
        SELECT * FROM tablex
        WHERE name IN (SELECT value FROM array_table WHERE idx = cont);
        SET cont = cont + 1; 
    END WHILE; 
END;

Answer 4

an example of WHILE loop inside stored procedure:

DELIMITER $$
DROP PROCEDURE IF EXISTS WhileLoopProc$$
CREATE PROCEDURE WhileLoopProc()
      BEGIN
              DECLARE x  INT;
              DECLARE str  VARCHAR(255);
              SET x = 1;
              SET str =  '';
              WHILE x  <= 5 DO
                          SET  str = CONCAT(str,x,',');
                          SET  x = x + 1; 
              END WHILE;
              SELECT str;
      END$$
DELIMITER ;

you can check this article for examples of arrays.