MySQL : how to remove double or more spaces from a string?

Question

I couldn\'t find this question for MySQL so here it is:

I need to trim all double or more spaces in a string to 1 single space.

For example: \"The  

Answer 1

If you are using php....

try{
$con = new PDO ("mysql:host=localhost;dbname=dbasename","root","");
}
catch(PDOException $e){
echo "error".$e-getMessage();   
}

$select = $con->prepare("SELECT * FROM table");
$select->setFetchMode(PDO::FETCH_ASSOC);
$select->execute();

while($data=$select->fetch()){ 

$id = $data['id'];
$column = $data['column'];

$column = trim(preg_replace('/\s+/',' ', $column)); // remove all extra space


$update = $con->prepare("UPDATE table SET column=:column WHERE id='$id'");
$update->bindParam(':column', $column );
$update->execute();

// echo $column."
";
}