Sign Up

Sign Up to our social questions and Answers Engine to ask questions, answer people’s questions, and connect with other people.

Have an account? Sign In

Have an account? Sign In Now

Sign In

Login to our social questions & Answers Engine to ask questions answer people’s questions & connect with other people.

Sign Up Here

Forgot Password?

Don't have account, Sign Up Here

Forgot Password

Lost your password? Please enter your email address. You will receive a link and will create a new password via email.

Have an account? Sign In Now

You must login to ask a question.

Forgot Password?

Need An Account, Sign Up Here

Please briefly explain why you feel this question should be reported.

Please briefly explain why you feel this answer should be reported.

Please briefly explain why you feel this user should be reported.

Sign InSign Up

The Archive Base

The Archive Base Logo The Archive Base Logo

The Archive Base Navigation

  • Home
  • SEARCH
  • About Us
  • Blog
  • Contact Us
Search
Ask A Question

Mobile menu

Close
Ask a Question
  • Home
  • Add group
  • Groups page
  • Feed
  • User Profile
  • Communities
  • Questions
    • New Questions
    • Trending Questions
    • Must read Questions
    • Hot Questions
  • Polls
  • Tags
  • Badges
  • Buy Points
  • Users
  • Help
  • Buy Theme
  • SEARCH
Home/ Questions/Q 8244693
In Process

The Archive Base Latest Questions

Editorial Team
  • 0
Editorial Team
Asked: June 7, 20262026-06-07T21:56:21+00:00 2026-06-07T21:56:21+00:00

Due to a coding error by a prior dev I’ve discovered we have a

  • 0

Due to a coding error by a prior dev I’ve discovered we have a mysql table that has a bit of data that has an extra escape character.

update mytable SET title = TRIM(TRAILING '\' FROM title)

I’ve tried the above but it obviously throws an error, and I’ve tried ‘\\’. How do I get mysql to treat the backslash literally on it’s own?

  • 1 1 Answer
  • 0 Views
  • 0 Followers
  • 0
Share
  • Facebook
  • Report

Leave an answer
Cancel reply

You must login to add an answer.

Forgot Password?

Need An Account, Sign Up Here

1 Answer

  • Voted
  • Oldest
  • Recent
  • Random
  1. Editorial Team
    Editorial Team
    2026-06-07T21:56:24+00:00Added an answer on June 7, 2026 at 9:56 pm

    Try the following:

    update mytable SET title = TRIM(TRAILING '\\' FROM title)
    
    • 0
    • Reply
    • Share
      Share
      • Share on Facebook
      • Share on Twitter
      • Share on LinkedIn
      • Share on WhatsApp
      • Report

Sidebar

Related Questions

I have a UITabBarController that has 3 tabs. Each tab contains a UITableViewController. When
I am coding in vb.net. At times the data is empty/null this is due
I has a fairly standard method that base64-encodes a string prior to sending that
At the moment I'm coding a web application that imports image data from Google
I have a WPF app that uses Flash10c.ocx developed on a 32 bit machine.
I have an application that uses a tab bar and whenever it launches it
Have tried to compile and run this program, but have received this error message
The full error is: Terminating app due to uncaught exception 'NSUnknownKeyException', reason: '[ setValue:forUndefinedKey:]:
I have three views that I switch between using a tab bar, and the
I have a data model with a Parent entity and a child entity. The

Explore

  • Home
  • Add group
  • Groups page
  • Communities
  • Questions
    • New Questions
    • Trending Questions
    • Must read Questions
    • Hot Questions
  • Polls
  • Tags
  • Badges
  • Users
  • Help
  • SEARCH

Footer

© 2021 The Archive Base. All Rights Reserved
With Love by The Archive Base

Insert/edit link

Enter the destination URL

Or link to existing content

    No search term specified. Showing recent items. Search or use up and down arrow keys to select an item.