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Asked: June 13, 20262026-06-13T05:09:38+00:00 2026-06-13T05:09:38+00:00

I want to SELECT DISTINCT on a table to return a string. If the

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I want to SELECT DISTINCT on a table to return a string.

If the string is blank, I don’t want to know about that row.

To make matters worse, some users ahve been inputting whitespace and I want to ignore those rows too.

(How) can I do this? Thanks (MySql)

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    2026-06-13T05:09:39+00:00Added an answer on June 13, 2026 at 5:09 am
    SELECT DISTINCT col_name 
    FROM table_name
    WHERE TRIM(col_name) != ''
    
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