SUBSTRING_INDEX

substring_index

Name

SinceVersion 1.2

SUBSTRING_INDEX

description

Syntax

VARCHAR substring_index(VARCHAR content, VARCHAR delimiter, INT field)

Split content to two parts at position where the fields of delimiter stays, return one of them according to below rules: if field is positive, return the left part; else if field is negative, return the right part; if field is zero, return an empty string when content is not null, else will return null.

• delimiter is case sensitive and multi-byte safe.
• delimiter and field parameter should be constant.

example

mysql> select substring_index("hello world", " ", 1);
+----------------------------------------+
| substring_index("hello world", " ", 1) |
+----------------------------------------+
| hello                                  |
+----------------------------------------+
mysql> select substring_index("hello world", " ", 2);
+----------------------------------------+
| substring_index("hello world", " ", 2) |
+----------------------------------------+
| hello world                            |
+----------------------------------------+
mysql> select substring_index("hello world", " ", -1);
+-----------------------------------------+
| substring_index("hello world", " ", -1) |
+-----------------------------------------+
| world                                   |
+-----------------------------------------+
mysql> select substring_index("hello world", " ", -2);
+-----------------------------------------+
| substring_index("hello world", " ", -2) |
+-----------------------------------------+
| hello world                             |
+-----------------------------------------+
mysql> select substring_index("hello world", " ", -3);
+-----------------------------------------+
| substring_index("hello world", " ", -3) |
+-----------------------------------------+
| hello world                             |
+-----------------------------------------+
mysql> select substring_index("hello world", " ", 0);
+----------------------------------------+
| substring_index("hello world", " ", 0) |
+----------------------------------------+
|                                        |
+----------------------------------------+

keywords

SUBSTRING_INDEX, SUBSTRING