On 09 Dec 2005 10:45:04 +0800, Jeffrey G. Ubalde > I have been thinking about this for hours, and I cant quite get the > correct keyword for me to search it in the manual. > > for example i have a field that contains string1:string2:string3 > where colon ':' is the delimiter. > > How do i create a select statement that only returns string2?
Something like this may be what you're after? http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/string-functions.html mysql> select substring_index(substring_index('string1:string2:string3',':',2),':',-1); +--------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | substring_index(substring_index('string1:string2:string3',':',2),':',-1) | +--------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | string2 | +--------------------------------------------------------------------------+ 1 row in set (0.00 sec) mysql> Will. -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql To unsubscribe: http://lists.mysql.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]
