The FIELD function extracts a substring between two occurrences of a delimiter. FIELD("+1+2+3ABAC", "+", 2, 4) means: find the substring between the 2nd and 4th occurrences of "+". The delimiters are at positions: 1st at 0, 2nd at 2, 3rd at 4, 4th at 6. The substring between positions 2 and 4 is "1+2".