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'm using the lib_mysqludf_preg library for this and a regex like this:

SELECT PREG_REPLACE('#<[^>]+>#',' ',cell) FROM table;

Also did it like this for rows which with encoded html entities:

SELECT PREG_REPLACE('#<.+?>#',' ',cell) FROM table;

There are probably cases where these might fail but I haven't encountered any and they're reasonably fast.