Question

I have ONE column in MySQl table which contains words in this format:

Name – Name2 – Name3

and I’d like to delete Name2, and to leave just Name – Name3

So I just need to delete middle word, and not the entire column! The middle word is always the same.

Is that possible?

Answer 1

update your_table
set your_column = concat(SUBSTRING_INDEX(your_column, '-', 1), '-',
                         SUBSTRING_INDEX(your_column, '-', -1))

SQLFiddle example
substring-index doc