MySQL query to extract first word from a field

Question

I would like to run a query that returns the first word only from a particular field, this field has multiple words separated by spaces, I assume I may need to carry out some re

Answer 1

SUBSTRING_INDEX: http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/string-functions.html#function_substring-index

SELECT SUBSTRING_INDEX(`name`, ' ', 1);