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Extract 4 characters from a string (starting from right):
SELECT RIGHT("SQL Tutorial is cool", 4) AS ExtractString;The RIGHT() function extracts a number of characters from a string (starting from right).
Also look at the LEFT() function.
string, number_of_chars )
Required. The string to extract from number_of_chars
Required. The number of characters to extract. If this parameter is larger than the number of characters in string, this function will return stringFrom MySQL 4.0
Extract 5 characters from the text in the "CustomerName" column (starting from right): SELECT RIGHT(CustomerName, 5) AS ExtractString
FROM Customers;❮ MySQL Functions