From: Neil Tompkins Date: October 12 2012 4:56pm Subject: Extract text from string List-Archive: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql/228382 Message-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary=047d7b3440f4cf6aef04cbdf9022 --047d7b3440f4cf6aef04cbdf9022 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Hi, Is there such a way in a MySQL query to extract the text "this is a test" from the following strings as a example this is a test link Thanks Neil --047d7b3440f4cf6aef04cbdf9022--