Deleting part of a string in MYSQL

Question

I want to delete part of a string found in a particular field.

For example, the entry in the field could be \"01365320APS\". The \"APS\" is what I

Answer 1

For every occurrence of APS, try this:

UPDATE table SET column=REPLACE(column,'APS','');

Reference: http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.5/en/string-functions.html#function_replace