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

With only one set of delimeters, the following should work:

SUBSTR(
    SUBSTR(fooField,LOCATE(':',fooField)+1),
    1,
    LOCATE(':',SUBSTR(fooField,LOCATE(':',fooField)+1))-1
 )