Question

total slow moment day, i need to extract different areas based on what language is selected from a field in a mysql database

ex:

<!--:en-->Overview<!--:--><!--:es-->Overview<!--:--><!--:fr-->Présentation<!--:--><!--:ar-->نظرة عامة<!--:-->

so if my language is french for example, i want the part between <!--:fr--> and <!--:-->

any ideas?

Answer 1

Strings processing is not the strongest part of MySQL. But here is one idea:

SELECT SUBSTRING_INDEX(SUBSTRING_INDEX(column_name, '<!--:fr-->', -1), '<!--:-->', 1) FROM table_name