MySQL REGEXP_REPLACE() function
Notice: Corrently,
REGEXP_REPLACE()
do not support\s
.
Here is an example of using MySQL 8+ regexp_replace()
:
> select regexp_replace('<div>Hello <b>world</b></div>', '<b>.*?</b>', 'MySQL', 1, 0, 'in') as result;
+------------------------+
| result |
+------------------------+
| <div>Hello MySQL</div> |
+------------------------+
Above example correspond to this syntax:
REGEXP_REPLACE(expr, pat, repl[, pos[, occurrence[, match_type]]])
expr
: is the string to be replacedpat
: is regex expression to searchrepl
: is what we want to replace withpos
: from position, default is1
occurrence
: replace times. default is0
, unlimitedmatch_type
: regex flag.c
: Case-sensitive matchingi
: Case-insensitive matchingm
: Multiple-line mode. Recognize line terminators within the string. The default behavior is to match line terminators only at the start and end of the string expression.n
: The.
character matches line terminators. The default is for.
matching to stop at the end of a line.u
: Unix-only line endings. Only the newline character is recognized as a line ending by the.
,^
, and$
match operators.
To replace a column value with REGEXP_REPLACE()
:
> update `name` = regexp_replace(`name`, '<b>.*?</b>', 'MySQL', 1, 0, 'in') where id = 10;
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