REPLACE new line character in MYSql not working

Question

I executed following query and for some reason its not replacing new line character in database . It says Rows matched 1 but no change . What can be wrong ?

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Answer 1

You think that it contains \n, but it has \r.

update [Table] set [column]=replace(convert([column] using utf8) ,'\r','');

In your case:

update aboutme set abouttext=replace(convert(abouttext using utf8) ,'\r','');