Sorry Jay,
Here is what I came up with.
select substring(substring_index(myfile,'.',-2),1,4) AS MyColumn from
mydatabase group by MyColumn;
That appears to yield what I need. I just need to filter out the
results that do not have an extension.
-Aaron
On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 9:28 AM, Jay Bla
Thanks Guys for you insights.
It may be a little more complicated then I made it out to be.
I have tried this select substring_index(myfiled,'.',-2) from mytable.
This has gotten me to a good starting point.
But I still have two problems. After the extension there is a space
and more wording.
I am looking for some guidance on creating a substring query. I have
a column that stores a path to a file. I would like to extract that
file extension and that is it and display it on my results. However,
the paths are different lengths and some extensions are 3 letter and
some are 4, eq 'html'
