REGEXP is a regular expression-compaible LIKE (also known a RLIKE). 
That is, it's for matching strings, not for modifying them.  I don't
believe there is any way to do a regular expression replace with
MySQL, but I haven't gone looking in a while.

cheers,
barneyb

On 3/10/06, John Paul Ashenfelter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> You want to look at the REGEXP operator built into MySQL. You should
> be able to do what you wish.
>
> http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/regexp.html
>

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