Can MySQL replace multiple characters?

Question

I\'m trying to replace a bunch of characters in a MySQL field. I know the REPLACE function but that only replaces one string at a time. I can\'t see any appropriate function

Answer 1

I've been using lib_mysqludf_preg for this which allows you to:

Use PCRE regular expressions directly in MySQL

With this library installed you could do something like this:

SELECT preg_replace('/(\\.|com|www)/','','www.example.com');

Which would give you:

example