title: SQL: how to select a substring between special characters
body: <p>My string looks something like this:</p>
  
  <pre><code>\\\abcde\fghijl\akjfljadf\\
  \\xyz\123
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>I want to select everything between the 1st set and next set of slashes </p>
  
  <p>Desired result:</p>
  
  <pre><code>abcde
  xyz
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>EDITED:  To clarify, the special character is always slashes - but the leading characters are not constant, sometimes there are 3 slashes and other times there are only 2 slashes, followed by texts, and then followed by 1 or more slashes, some more texts, 1 or more slash, so on and so forth.  I'm not using any adapter at all, just looking for a way to select this substring in my SQL query</p>
  
  <p>Please advise.</p>
  
  <p>Thanks in advance.</p>