Question

in MYSQL, given a string with dots in it, I want to select everything before the last dot. for example:
input

www.java2s.com

output:

www.java2s

substring_index seems to do the opposite:

mysql> SELECT SUBSTRING_INDEX('www.java2s.com', '.', -1);
+--------------------------------------------+
| SUBSTRING_INDEX('www.java2s.com', '.', -1) |
+--------------------------------------------+
| com                                        |
+--------------------------------------------+

can this be done?

Answer 1

    select substr('www.java2s.sth.com', 1, (length('www.java2s.sth.com')- 
    length(SUBSTRING_INDEX(('www.java2s.sth.com'), '.', -1))-1));`