Re: SELECT/LIKE works but UPDATE/REPLACE doesn't
> I hadn't seen anything to suggest that REPLACE could not work with wild cards
If replace() supported wildcards, the manual page would mention them.
> how I target a piece of text in a large VARCHAR field where I cannot predict what comes after or before
Standard programming. Find the position of the target string with locate(), refer to what follows with substr().
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Re: SELECT/LIKE works but UPDATE/REPLACE doesn't
October 24, 2016 09:33PM
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