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

you can use the substring / locate function in 1 command

here is a mice tutorial:

http://infofreund.de/mysql-select-substring-2-different-delimiters/

The command as describes their should look for u:

**SELECT substr(text,Locate(' :', text )+2,Locate(': ', text )-(Locate(' :', text )+2)) FROM testtable**

where text is the textfield which contains "test 'esf :foo: bar"

So foo can be fooooo or fo - the length doesnt matter :).