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    BUG 11104 (same as changeset 1.1891 on the 5.0 tree, but realised this · 16c45930
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    needed to be fixed in earlier versions)
    Fixed the iteration of how substrings are handled with negative indexes in 
    SUBSTRING_INDEX
    
    
    mysql-test/r/func_str.result:
      New results for the fix to substring_index
    mysql-test/t/func_str.test:
      Added tests for fix to substring_index, various lenth search patterns. Also included
      are the queuries the user who reported the bug listed in the bug report
    sql/item_strfunc.cc:
      Fix to BUG 11104 
          Took out the offset-=delimiter_length-1 out of the for loop. It was causing
          basically this: 
          select substring_index('the king of the the hill', 'the', -2) to not work.
          The first iteration, offset would be initialised to 24, then strstr would 
          point at 'the king of the the* hill' ('*'means right before the 
          character following), returning a offset of 16. The for loop would then 
          decrement offset by two (3 - 1), to 14, now pointing at 
          "the king of th*e the hill", _skipping_ past the 'e' in the second to last
          'the', and therefore strstr would never have a chance of matching the 
          second to last 'the', then moving on to the 'the' at the begginning of the 
          string!
      
          In a nutshell, offset was being decremented by too great a value, preventing
          the second to last 'the' from being ever found, hence the result of 
          'king of the the hill' from the query that is reported in the bug report
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