How to retrieve the last 4 characters from a mysql database field?

Question

In order to be able to simulate substr from PHP and mysql, I want to do something like

select * from table where last_four_chars(field) = \'.png\'


        

Answer 1

This Fast query:

Select * from table where picName like '%.png'

Answer 2

With RIGHT function :

SELECT RIGHT('abcdefg', 3);
-- efg

You can achieve the same result with SUBSTRING :

SELECT SUBSTRING('abcdefg', -3);
-- efg

Answer 3

The docs have an example directly relevant to this.

select * from table where SUBSTRING(field, -4) = '.png'

Answer 4

SELECT * FROM table WHERE SUBSTRING( field, -4 ) = '.png'