Why not store them in separate columns? You could then have the domain field be a foreign key into another table.
-----Original Message----- From: Ferindo Middleton [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, May 12, 2006 2:14 PM To: mysql@lists.mysql.com Subject: how to extract common text string from field? Suppose you have a field in a db table that holds email addresses and all of the address end in domain.com. Is there a MySQL function that can be used to extract the first part of the email address, the username (the part of the email address before the 'domain.com' part of the email address). I was hoping somehow to do this within a SELECT statement so instead of seeing the email address I would see the username without the 'domain.com' part. Ferindo -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql To unsubscribe: http://lists.mysql.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]
