Splitting Contents of a Column

I need to break (split) the content of a column into four individual elements. The content on this column is made up of four (4) parts, each part is separated by an underscore character (_). Each part contains a variable value, so the underscore character is not fixed.
Column format: Part1_part2_part3_part4
Example;
aaaa_bbbb_cccc_eeee
aaaaa_bbbb_ccccc_eeee
aaa_bbb_ccccc_eeeee
aa_bbbbbb_ccc_ee
I would like to end up with each part separated from the original value. So, that I can group by the value for each part (Part1, part2, part3, or part4)
Wanted result (this is only represents the values for “Part1” from example)
Part1 values;
aaaa
aaaaa
aaa
aa
Thank you in advance

1) It sounds like you have a problem with incorrect normalization. Your column is not atomic. Your table should really have 4 separate columns to store each component. It's far easier to combine 4 columns to get a combined value than to try to parse a compound column.
2) That said, you can use the SUBSTR and INSTR functions to parse the data
SQL> ed
Wrote file afiedt.buf
1 with x as (
2    select 'aaaa_bbb_cc_eeeee' compound from dual
3 )
4 select substr( compound,
5                 1,
6                 instr( compound, '_', 1, 1 ) - 1 ) part_1,
7         substr( compound,
8                 instr( compound, '_', 1, 1 ) + 1,
9                 instr( compound, '_', 1, 2 ) -
10                    instr( compound, '_', 1, 1) - 1) part_2,
11         substr( compound,
12                 instr( compound, '_', 1, 2 ) + 1,
13                 instr( compound, '_', 1, 3 ) -
14                    instr( compound, '_', 1, 2) - 1) part_3,
15         substr( compound,
16                 instr( compound, '_', 1, 3 ) + 1,
17                 length(compound) -
18                    instr( compound, '_', 1, 3) - 1) part_4
19*   from x
SQL> /
PART PAR PA PART
aaaa bbb cc eeeeJustin

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