If the bracketed stuff really can be anything, you're better off doing it
externally, I guess. If you can be reasonably sure that there'll not be any
square brackets in there, you can fluff about with instr() and substr().
On Sat, Jan 22, 2011 at 6:18 PM, Eric Bergen eric.ber...@gmail.com wrote:
There isn't a built in way but you can try
http://www.mysqludf.org/lib_mysqludf_preg/
I would go with the php/perl script if this is a one time thing.
-Eric
On Jan 21, 2011, at 11:31 AM, Phil pchap...@nc.rr.com wrote:
I have a table which contains a username column which may be constructed
I have a table which contains a username column which may be constructed
something like
somename[A] or [DDD]someothername
The A or DDD can be anything at all.
I've added a new column to the table to which I'd like to populate with the
value within the square brackets.
I
