How to parse out quoted values from a column with sql

Question

I have a field that has values like this...

s:10:"03/16/1983"; s:4:"Male"; s:2:"No";

I'd like to parse out the quoted values.

its going to be some sort of combination of substr and instr

its the doublequote i have issues finding its position.

i have tried things like select substr(field_value, instr(field_value,'"'),instr(field_value,'"',null,2)) from table where etc

apologies a noob question...

Answer 1

Here's something that should work (unable to test at the moment):

select substr(substr(field_value, instr(field_value,':')+1, CHAR_LENGTH(field_value)-1),
              instr(substr(field_value, instr(field_value,':')+1, CHAR_LENGTH(field_value)-1),':')+1)

Edit: Putting my comment in the answer:

select substr(field_value, instr(field_value,'\"'),CHAR_LENGTH(field_value)-1)