Search for text between delimiters in MySQL

Question

I am trying to extract a certain part of a column that is between delimiters.

e.g. find foo in the following

test \'esf :foo: bar

So in the above I\'d wa

Answer 1

select mid(col from locate(':',col) + 1 for 
locate(':',col,locate(':',col)+1)-locate(':',col) - 1 ) 
from table where col rlike ':.*:';