Question

I have table with field called description which contains text like following

|Description                              |
|-----------------------------------------|
|This is a text <a>blah</a> <br/> <img /> |
|This is <b>second</b> <a>row</a>         |

I would like to remove everything between “<” and “>“

Required Output

|Description                              |
|-----------------------------------------|
|This is a text blah                      |
|This is second row                       |

Is there anyway I can achieve this using MYSQL query. I cant currently use Stored procedure for the same as I don’t have rights. I have requested for the access to use stored procedure but that will take some time and I have to finish this bit urgently.

Thanks.

Update: my question is similar to Remove string between 2 characters from text string but I want it to be done in MYSQL query.

Answer 1

In short, you can’t, you need a more advanced language like PHP. Your SQL query is not the place to be doing string manipulation.