BUG 11104 (same as changeset 1.1891 on the 5.0 tree, but realised this
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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