Search for text between delimiters in MySQL

Question

I am trying to extract a certain part of a column that is between delimiters.

e.g. find foo in the following

test \'esf :foo: bar

So in the above I\'d wa

Answer 1

This should work if the two delimiters only appear twice in your column. I am doing something similar...

substring_index(substring_index(column,':',-2),':',1)