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

I don't know if you have this kind of authority, but if you have to do queries like this it might be time to renormalize your tables, and have these values in a lookup table.