What is the MySQL query equivalent of PHP strip_tags?

Question

I have a large database which contains records that have tags in them and I would like to remove them. Of course there is the method where I create a

Answer 1

I am passing this code on, seems very similar to the above. Worked for me, hope it helps.

BEGIN
  DECLARE iStart, iEnd, iLength   INT;

  WHILE locate('<', Dirty) > 0 AND locate('>', Dirty, locate('<', Dirty)) > 0
  DO
    BEGIN
      SET iStart = locate('<', Dirty), iEnd = locate('>', Dirty, locate('<', Dirty));
      SET iLength = (iEnd - iStart) + 1;
      IF iLength > 0 THEN
        BEGIN
          SET Dirty = insert(Dirty, iStart, iLength, '');
        END;
      END IF;
    END;
  END WHILE;
  RETURN Dirty;
END