Get a count of ranged and comma separated items in a string in SQL?

This can be cleaned up/optimized and is intentionally verbose but should get you started. Notably, the logic inside the last IF is almost identical to that of the WHILE and the block that gets the numeric value of the left/right elements is repeated four times.

You can use a trick to count the number of commas in a comma separated list.

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