How can I use JSON_EXTRACT in MySQL and get a string without the quotes?

Question

If I have a simple SELECT statement like this:

SELECT JSON_EXTRACT(\'{\"username\":\"Alexander\"}\', \'$.username\');

I would expect it to

Answer 1

you can use replace() with it to remove quotation marks

SELECT replace(JSON_EXTRACT('{"username":"Alexander"}', '$.username'), '\"', '');