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

select 
    substring(test_field, 1, instr(test_field, ' ')) 
from 
    test_table

Answer 2

SELECT
  SUBSTR(field_name, 1, LOCATE(' ', field_name)) AS first_word
FROM
  table

Answer 3

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

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

Answer 4

Here you go :)

SELECT SUBSTRING_INDEX( `field` , ' ', 1 ) AS `field_first_word`
FROM `your_table`