How to remove text between 2 characters using query in MYSQL

Question

I have table with field called description which contains text like following

|Description                              |
|----------------------------------         


        

Answer 1

if you use php as your server side language you can use strip_tags function to remove tags.I hope it can help you.

Answer 2

In short, you can't, you need a more advanced language like PHP. Your SQL query is not the place to be doing string manipulation.

Answer 3

since this question is still in top google results, maybe the answer might help someone:

a quick function that replaces the content between two characters. It should work with words as well, but I haven't test it with words. For deleting in the following string: "this is a [demo]"

the string between [ and ] do:

select deletestr("this is a [demo]" ,'[',']');

and the function:

 CREATE DEFINER=`replace_with_your_db`@`%` 
FUNCTION `deletestr` (`inputstr` TEXT CHARSET utf8, `fromstr` VARCHAR(10) CHARSET utf8, `tostr` VARCHAR(10) CHARSET utf8) RETURNS text CHARSET utf8
    NO SQL
RETURN
replace(inputstr,substr(inputstr, locate(fromstr,inputstr),locate(tostr,inputstr)-locate(fromstr,inputstr)+length(tostr)),'')

Answer 4

How about REPLACE() using a wildcard to capture the unknown text between opening and closing brackets? http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/string-functions.html#function_replace