Question

I have about a thousand entries that all contain backslashes throughout the entry. Is there an easy way, or a script that can delete a specific character from every entry?

Answer 1

Replace should do your job.

http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/string-functions.html#function_replace

UPDATE table_name SET col=REPLACE(col, '\\', '')

This should work. It will update the column replacing \ with the empty string. I just do not remember if you have to escape the \, using \\ or just \. Check it before running the query, using SELECT col, REPLACE(col,'\\','') FROM table_name and see if the result is what you are expecting.