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

Answer 2

When you want to edit a field, you need an UPDATE statement:

UPDATE table SET fieldname=REPLACE(fieldname,'APS','')

REPLACE is a string function that replaces every occurence of the 2nd string in the 1st string with the 3rd one.

Please try this with a WHERE clause first, to see if it is really what you want to do.