Extracting values from a serialized array without delimiters

andrew_milonavic

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Hi,

I have a form on my website that I use in an nontraditional manner. Users return to update and save the form but it is never submitted.

The problem is the form saves the data in a serialized array without delimiters inside a single MySQL table column. See table image: https://imgur.com/a/tvnDN4v

So far I have not be able to query the values directly and I have tried exporting the table using all combinations of line separators, enclosed string and field separators to make the data usable.

Is there an excel formula (Preferably not a VBA, but if that's the only option than so be it.) that can extract the values into columns? If there is a SQL expert among the Excel users I'm open to a SQL query as well. Bottom line is I just need the values separated in columns, I can add column headers after the fact as they are not identifiable in the array. I can add an extra form field too that adds the users_id so associating the data with a specific users is a non issue as well.

Thoughts?

Here is the value string with dummy data:
Code:
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:155,"isUpdated":true},{"value":"Test-Data-50","clean":false,"visible":true,"invalid":false,"default":"","custom_name_attribute":"","personally_identifiable":"","cellOrder":2,"id":71,"isUpdated":true},{"value":["Test-Data-51","Test-Data-52","Test-Data-53"],"clean":false,"visible":true,"invalid":false,"id":70,"selected":[],"isUpdated":true},{"value":"Test-Data-54","clean":false,"visible":true,"invalid":false,"default":"","custom_name_attribute":"","personally_identifiable":"","cellOrder":2,"id":74,"isUpdated":true},{"value":["Test-Data-55","Test-Data-56"],"clean":false,"visible":true,"invalid":false,"id":72,"selected":[],"isUpdated":true},{"value":"Test-Data-57","clean":false,"visible":true,"invalid":false,"default":"","custom_name_attribute":"","personally_identifiable":"","cellOrder":2,"id":78,"isUpdated":true},{"value":[" Test-Data-58"],"clean":false,"visible":true,"invalid":false,"id":76,"selected":[],"isUpdated":true}]

Thanks

Andrew
 

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