How to Search Records in Table and Replace Characters?

[FirstBorn]

How to Search Records in Table and Replace Characters?

Hi,

Thank you Very Much for your help!

How do I search records in a table for specific quote character and replace it with a different quote character.
(Windows / Website Compatible Font?)

I know the basic SQL commands;

SELECT * FROM `table` WHERE `body` ... blah blah blah,

But how do I search inside the text record for:

“
 
and replace them with this:

"

AND


”

replace with:

"


AND

’

replace with:


'

?

Thank You VERY MUCH for Your Help!



FirstBorn

 

[Jacques1]

The function you're looking for happens to be called REPLACE(). So do an UPDATE query and chain as many REPLACE() calls as you need:

UPDATE
  some_table
SET
  some_column = REPLACE(REPLACE(REPLACE(some_column, '...', '...'), '...', '...'), '...', '...')
;

I hope you're not doing this regularly?

[Psycho]

I hope you're not doing this regularly?

 

In other words, find the code that inserts those records and do the replacements on the text before the data is inserted. Once the problem has been fixed at the source, you can then run the necessary REPLACE queries to resolve the existing data.