Extracting Text between sub strings in MySQL

Question

I have a text like the below

[:de]

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Answer 1

Assuming this is your data with the german always before the english, then:

select substring_index(substring_index(col, '[:de]', -1), '[:en]', 1)

If this is not the case, you can test for different possibilities:

select (case when col like '%[:de]%[%:en]%'
             then substring_index(substring_index(col, '[:de]', -1), '[:en]', 1)
             when col like '%[:de]%[%:]%'
             then substring_index(substring_index(col, '[:de]', -1), '[:]', 1)
             else substring_index(col, '[:de]', -1)
       end)