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

A combination of LOCATE and MID would probably do the trick.

If the value "test 'esf :foo: bar" was in the field fooField:

MID( fooField, LOCATE('foo', fooField), 3);