MySQL: Check if the user exists and drop it

Question

There’s not standard way to check if a MySQL user exists and based on that drop it. Are there any workarounds for this?

Edit: I need a straight way to run this wi

Answer 1

in terminal do:

sudo mysql -u root -p

enter the password.

select user from mysql.user;

now delete the user 'the_username'

DROP USER the_unername;

replace 'the_username' with the user that you want to delete.