Removing "The " with an IF statement in MYSQL Before Insert Trigger - mysql

Question

Hello helpful world of Stack Overflow!
I am brand new to Triggers, but am having fun using them in my new project.
I have already gotten a few done, but am struggling with setting up a sort field by removing "The " from the beginning of a name.
Being new to this, I am using PHP MyAdmin to build my triggers. So I have it set to my 'aartist' table, Before Insert. The 2 fields are artist_name & artist_sort. This is the full code I've tried with no luck.
BEGIN
IF (left(new.artist_name,4) != "The ")
THEN
set new.artist_sort = new.artist_name
ELSE
set new.artist_sort = right(new.artist_name,len(new.artist_name)-4)
END IF;
END
I've also tried stripping it back for something more simple, still without luck. The IF statement seems to not work in the TRIGGER.
BEGIN
IF (new.artist_name != new.artist_sort) THEN
set new.artist_sort = new.artist_name
END IF;
END
The Error PHPMyAdmin gives is:
One or more errors have occurred while processing your request:
The following query has failed: "CREATE DEFINER=`####`#`localhost` TRIGGER `AddArtist` BEFORE INSERT ON `aartist` FOR EACH ROW BEGIN IF (new.artist_name != new.artist_sort) THEN set new.artist_sort = new.artist_name END IF; END"
MySQL said: #1064 - You have an error in your SQL syntax; check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use near 'END IF; END' at line 4
Thank you, as always, for any help in figure out what I might be doing wrong with this.

Answer 1

Did some more digging around and found some SQL code that I modified, so instead of using the PHPMyAdmin Trigger Form, I just adjusted the SQL code and it worked! Not 100% sure why it worked with this, but the main change was the Delimiter piece in the code and additional ;s, so my guess is that had something to do with it.
MySQL trigger if condition exists
DROP TRIGGER IF EXISTS AddArtist;
DELIMITER $$
CREATE TRIGGER AddArtist BEFORE UPDATE ON `aartist`
FOR EACH ROW BEGIN
IF (left(NEW.artist_name,4) = 'The ') THEN
SET NEW.artist_sort = right(NEW.artist_name, CHAR_LENGTH(NEW.artist_name) - 4);
ELSE
SET NEW.artist_sort = NEW.artist_name;
END IF;
END$$
DELIMITER ;