mysql update with regexp

Question

I want to remove something from my table 1) 32) 121) 1000)... the format is number + )

Answer 1

As an alternative, depending on the size of the table, you could do a workaround with substring function.

Answer 2

You can't: Mysql doesn't support regex-based replace.

See this SO question for a work-around.

Answer 3

Finally, I use some php to solve this problem with a quickly method.

for ($i=1; $i<=9999; $i++){
 $my_regex = $i.')';
 mysql_query("UPDATE articles SET title = REPLACE(title,'".$i."', '' ) where title like '%".$i."%'");
}