how does one go about updating a substring in mysql
e.g.
I want to change all occurences of Gmbh to GMBH within a field string.
BMW gmbh
BMW Gmbh
Mercedes Gmbh
Joe Blogg Gmbh & Mercedes Ltd
get changed to
BMW GMBH
BMW GMBH
Mercedes GMBH
Joe Blogg GMBH & Mercedes Ltd
I know how to do this in PHP, but is there a way of doing it in MySQL
natively?
2  2039 
kaptain kernel wrote: I want to change all occurences of Gmbh to GMBH within a field string.
Maybe like this:
-- SQL --
create table `test`.`xx` (
`id` int (2) UNSIGNED NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT ,
`description` varchar (32) NULL ,
PRIMARY KEY ( `id` )
)
insert into `test`.`xx` (description) values
('BMW gmbh'), ('BMW Gmbh'), ('Mercedes Gmbh'), ('Joe Blogg Gmbh &
Mercedes Ltd')
select * from xx
update xx
set description = INSERT(descript ion, INSTR(descripti on, 'gmbh'), 4,
'GMBH')
where LOCATE('gmbh', description)>0
select * from xx
-- END SQL --
HTH
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That is most excellent - thanks. i wasn't aware of the LOCATE function.
This will save a LOT of time (and PHP processing...)
Pedro Graca wrote: kaptain kernel wrote: I want to change all occurences of Gmbh to GMBH within a field string.
Maybe like this:
-- SQL --
create table `test`.`xx` (
`id` int (2) UNSIGNED NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT ,
`description` varchar (32) NULL ,
PRIMARY KEY ( `id` )
)
insert into `test`.`xx` (description) values
('BMW gmbh'), ('BMW Gmbh'), ('Mercedes Gmbh'), ('Joe Blogg Gmbh &
Mercedes Ltd')
select * from xx
update xx
set description = INSERT(descript ion, INSTR(descripti on, 'gmbh'), 4,
'GMBH')
where LOCATE('gmbh', description)>0
select * from xx
-- END SQL --
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