Petr Tuma wrote:

> What error message it produce?

Ok, table titles is composed of:

+----------+-------------+----------------+
| titlesid | releaseyear | title          |
+----------+-------------+----------------+

mysql> select *,(case when title like 'The %' then substring (title, 5, 255) when 
title like 'A %' then substring (title, 3, 255) when title like 'An %' then substring 
(title, 4, 255) else title end) as sort_col from titles order by sort_col;
ERROR 1064: You have an error in your SQL syntax near 'when title like 'The %' then 
substring (title, 5, 255) when title like 'A %' the' at line 1


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