Hi,
if the first characters are numerics, no need to use regexp, since mysql does
implicit conversion if you do calculations :
mysql> select '10.95 tiitti' from dual;
+--------------+
| 10.95 tiitti |
+--------------+
| 10.95 tiitti |
+--------------+
1 row in set (0.09 sec)
mysql> select '10.95 tiitti'+0 from dual;
+------------------+
| '10.95 tiitti'+0 |
+------------------+
| 10.95 |
+------------------+
1 row in set (0.02 sec)
Mathias
Selon zzapper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> Hi,
>
> I wanted to clean up some numeric currency data fields which had some
> non-numeric values which took
> the first two characters of the field (they were some kind of garbage
> characters) anyway the
> following did the trick
>
> update tbl_products set p10_price=mid(p10_price,2) where p10_price regexp
> ('[^0-9.]');
>
> Which worked because the mucky characters were always the first two digits
> but it's still cludgy.
>
> What I really wanted to do was just "filter out the good any currency
> numerics of form \d+.\d\d
> 10.95 but as mysql only supports regexp when matching, I couldn't think of a
> way. I have the same
> problem if I try to "Locate" I cant AFAIK say locate first digit.
>
> Comments/Ideas?
>
> Q2)
> Can I match mucky non-alphanumerics ?
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