From: Ananda Kumar Date: August 20 2009 2:15pm Subject: alternate in mysql List-Archive: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql/218442 Message-Id: <829b199c0908200715v2312658eu74162ef26310307@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary=000e0cd4871cd43144047193616d --000e0cd4871cd43144047193616d Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hi All, I have this data in both oracle and mysql. select * from tmp; T -------------------------------------------------- asdf /sr/db/ora/ora.ora asdfljk asdlkjf asdf /sr/db/ora/ora.ora /sr/db/ora/aaa.ora asdlkjf Where t is a varchar column, with each row having multiple lines. I can write this query in oracle to fetch only rows starting with ''sr/db" select substr(t, instr(t, '/sr/db/'), instr(substr(t, instr(t, '/sr/db/'), length(t)), chr(10))) from tmp; /sr/db/ora/ora.ora /sr/db/ora/ora.ora where chr(10) ..represents "NEW LINE" in oracle How do i do the same in mysql. Thanks for all you help. regards anandkl --000e0cd4871cd43144047193616d--