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MySQL Replace Troubles

         

apauto

3:41 am on May 2, 2008 (gmt 0)

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Hi guys,

I'm trying to do a few nested replace's in a select statement in MySQL, and it keeps throwing an error.

Do you see a problem?

select * from OEM where replace(replace(replace(replace(replace(replace(replace(productname, ' ', ''), '-', ''), '/', ''), '\', ''), '&', ''), 'amp;', ''), '.', '') = 'widget'

Thanks

coopster

4:04 pm on May 2, 2008 (gmt 0)

WebmasterWorld Administrator 10+ Year Member



Your backslash is likely being read as an escape character. Therefore you are escaping the quotation mark.