Was just an examle date column ;-)
Anyhoo, jsut a note to say, it's sorted..(I did the mass replace by hand
:-( but at least it's done...
I've also sorted anotehr prob too, so all in all, a productive morning...
I jsut wish I could remember all this stuff for next time!
"Ignatius Reilly" <ignatius.reilly@free.fr>
28/08/2003 11:29
To: <Tristan.Pretty@risk.sungard.com>
cc: <php-db@lists.php.net>
Subject: Re: Simple field replace...?
Then a simple substring will do:
UPDATE mytable
SET url = SUBSTRING( url FROM 5 )
btw your date column looks pretty awful.
HTH
Ignatius
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To: "Ignatius Reilly" <ignatius.reilly@free.fr>
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Subject: Re: Simple field replace...?
> Sorry, I'll specify...
> I have one column, in a row of perhaps 4 fields.
> I want to remove the first 32 characters from onlt one field
>
> EG:
> My DB:
>
> name date url ip
> bob 1/2/99 http:// 1.1.1.1.
> sue 4/6/01 http:// 2.2.2.2
>
> If I wanted to remove just the http bit and leave ://
> I'd have to remove the first 4 characters from all the 'url' column.
> this is what I wanna do, jsut 100+ times over. but the first 32
> characters.
>
>
>
>
>
> "Ignatius Reilly" <ignatius.reilly@free.fr>
> 28/08/2003 11:04
>
>
> To: <php-db@lists.php.net>,
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> cc:
> Subject: Re: Simple field replace...?
>
>
> hundreds of what? rows or columns?
>
> Ignatius
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> To: <php-db@lists.php.net>
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> Subject: Simple field replace...?
>
>
> > Hi there,
> > I need to take a field in my database, and remove the first 32
> characters
> > from each entry...
> > There are 100's, and I know there's gotta be an easy way...
> > I've looked up string replace, and it only appears to work one at a
> > time...
> > Can anyone tell me how to make it accross the whole table...?
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