Question

I executed following query and for some reason its not replacing new line character in database . It says Rows matched 1 but no change . What can be wrong ?

mysql> UPDATE aboutme SET abouttext=REPLACE(abouttext,'\\n','') WHERE userid='5099a95cd944b8.22468149';
Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.00 sec)
Rows matched: 1  Changed: 0  Warnings: 0

Answer 1

You can match a newline character using \n, not \\n.

Code:

 UPDATE aboutme 
 SET abouttext=REPLACE(abouttext,'\n','') 
 WHERE userid='5099a95cd944b8.22468149';