Question

I am trying to get mid part of string. My table is like below :

id   machine   model
1    lathe     ISO-678-1567 

I want to get mid part like 678 fro machine model.

Desred output:

id   machine   model             midcode
1    lathe     ISO-678-1567      678

Currently I am doing same with PHP codwe. But I think it will be better to do in Mysql query itself. Please help me how to do this ?

Answer 1

use MID(str,pos,len) mysql function that will do this.

SELECT id,machine,model,MID(model,4,3) as midcode FROM tablename