Field shorten in PhpMyAdmin

[Mrkay]

Hi and thanks in advance.

 

Apologies but I'm a newbie at this.

 

I've got a field in a MySql (Place_id) table called Pic. Most of the data in that field is in the form #1234 but some are in the format 1234. What I want to do is strip out the # part of the data in every record of that field in the table that contains it. Can anyone help me with the sql please.

 

Thanks.

[PravinS]

use MySQL replace function in query like this

UPDATE Pic SET Place_id = REPLACE(Place_id, '#', '')

also do take table backup before doing mass update

[Mrkay]

I get an error - this is what I did and the response.

 

Error

SQL query: 

SELECT * 
FROM `Pic` 
UPDATE Pic SET Place_id = REPLACE( Place_id, '#', '' ) LIMIT 0 ,
30

MySQL said: 

#1064 - You have an error in your SQL syntax; check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use near 'UPDATE Pic SET Place_id = REPLACE(Place_id, '#', '')
LIMIT 0, 30' at line 2 

[Mrkay]

I've sorted it - didn't need the

-SELECT * 

FROM `Pic`

 

Doh.

 

Thank you very much!!