下面的一个基本上从左边找到第一个匹配，然后替换它的所有出现(在mysql-5.6中测试)。

用法:

SELECT REGEX_REPLACE('dis ambiguity', 'dis[[:space:]]*ambiguity', 'disambiguity');

实现:

DELIMITER $$
CREATE FUNCTION REGEX_REPLACE(
  var_original VARCHAR(1000),
  var_pattern VARCHAR(1000),
  var_replacement VARCHAR(1000)
  ) RETURNS
    VARCHAR(1000)
  COMMENT 'Based on https://techras.wordpress.com/2011/06/02/regex-replace-for-mysql/'
BEGIN
  DECLARE var_replaced VARCHAR(1000) DEFAULT var_original;
  DECLARE var_leftmost_match VARCHAR(1000) DEFAULT
    REGEX_CAPTURE_LEFTMOST(var_original, var_pattern);
    WHILE var_leftmost_match IS NOT NULL DO
      IF var_replacement <> var_leftmost_match THEN
        SET var_replaced = REPLACE(var_replaced, var_leftmost_match, var_replacement);
        SET var_leftmost_match = REGEX_CAPTURE_LEFTMOST(var_replaced, var_pattern);
        ELSE
          SET var_leftmost_match = NULL;
        END IF;
      END WHILE;
  RETURN var_replaced;
END $$
DELIMITER ;

DELIMITER $$
CREATE FUNCTION REGEX_CAPTURE_LEFTMOST(
  var_original VARCHAR(1000),
  var_pattern VARCHAR(1000)
  ) RETURNS
    VARCHAR(1000)
  COMMENT '
  Captures the leftmost substring that matches the [var_pattern]
  IN [var_original], OR NULL if no match.
  '
BEGIN
  DECLARE var_temp_l VARCHAR(1000);
  DECLARE var_temp_r VARCHAR(1000);
  DECLARE var_left_trim_index INT;
  DECLARE var_right_trim_index INT;
  SET var_left_trim_index = 1;
  SET var_right_trim_index = 1;
  SET var_temp_l = '';
  SET var_temp_r = '';
  WHILE (CHAR_LENGTH(var_original) >= var_left_trim_index) DO
    SET var_temp_l = LEFT(var_original, var_left_trim_index);
    IF var_temp_l REGEXP var_pattern THEN
      WHILE (CHAR_LENGTH(var_temp_l) >= var_right_trim_index) DO
        SET var_temp_r = RIGHT(var_temp_l, var_right_trim_index);
        IF var_temp_r REGEXP var_pattern THEN
          RETURN var_temp_r;
          END IF;
        SET var_right_trim_index = var_right_trim_index + 1;
        END WHILE;
      END IF;
    SET var_left_trim_index = var_left_trim_index + 1;
    END WHILE;
  RETURN NULL;
END $$
DELIMITER ;

更新2:MySQL 8.0中提供了一组有用的regex函数，包括REGEXP_REPLACE。这将使阅读变得不必要，除非您必须使用较早的版本。

更新1:现在已经把这变成了一篇博客:http://stevettt.blogspot.co.uk/2018/02/a-mysql-regular-expression-replace.html

下面扩展了Rasika Godawatte提供的函数，但它涵盖了所有必要的子字符串，而不仅仅是测试单个字符:

-- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
-- USAGE
-- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
-- SELECT reg_replace(<subject>,
--                    <pattern>,
--                    <replacement>,
--                    <greedy>,
--                    <minMatchLen>,
--                    <maxMatchLen>);
-- where:
-- <subject> is the string to look in for doing the replacements
-- <pattern> is the regular expression to match against
-- <replacement> is the replacement string
-- <greedy> is TRUE for greedy matching or FALSE for non-greedy matching
-- <minMatchLen> specifies the minimum match length
-- <maxMatchLen> specifies the maximum match length
-- (minMatchLen and maxMatchLen are used to improve efficiency but are
--  optional and can be set to 0 or NULL if not known/required)
-- Example:
-- SELECT reg_replace(txt, '^[Tt][^ ]* ', 'a', TRUE, 2, 0) FROM tbl;
DROP FUNCTION IF EXISTS reg_replace;
DELIMITER //
CREATE FUNCTION reg_replace(subject VARCHAR(21845), pattern VARCHAR(21845),
  replacement VARCHAR(21845), greedy BOOLEAN, minMatchLen INT, maxMatchLen INT)
RETURNS VARCHAR(21845) DETERMINISTIC BEGIN 
  DECLARE result, subStr, usePattern VARCHAR(21845); 
  DECLARE startPos, prevStartPos, startInc, len, lenInc INT;
  IF subject REGEXP pattern THEN
    SET result = '';
    -- Sanitize input parameter values
    SET minMatchLen = IF(minMatchLen IS NULL OR minMatchLen < 1, 1, minMatchLen);
    SET maxMatchLen = IF(maxMatchLen IS NULL OR maxMatchLen < 1
                         OR maxMatchLen > CHAR_LENGTH(subject),
                         CHAR_LENGTH(subject), maxMatchLen);
    -- Set the pattern to use to match an entire string rather than part of a string
    SET usePattern = IF (LEFT(pattern, 1) = '^', pattern, CONCAT('^', pattern));
    SET usePattern = IF (RIGHT(pattern, 1) = '$', usePattern, CONCAT(usePattern, '$'));
    -- Set start position to 1 if pattern starts with ^ or doesn't end with $.
    IF LEFT(pattern, 1) = '^' OR RIGHT(pattern, 1) <> '$' THEN
      SET startPos = 1, startInc = 1;
    -- Otherwise (i.e. pattern ends with $ but doesn't start with ^): Set start pos
    -- to the min or max match length from the end (depending on "greedy" flag).
    ELSEIF greedy THEN
      SET startPos = CHAR_LENGTH(subject) - maxMatchLen + 1, startInc = 1;
    ELSE
      SET startPos = CHAR_LENGTH(subject) - minMatchLen + 1, startInc = -1;
    END IF;
    WHILE startPos >= 1 AND startPos <= CHAR_LENGTH(subject)
      AND startPos + minMatchLen - 1 <= CHAR_LENGTH(subject)
      AND !(LEFT(pattern, 1) = '^' AND startPos <> 1)
      AND !(RIGHT(pattern, 1) = '$'
            AND startPos + maxMatchLen - 1 < CHAR_LENGTH(subject)) DO
      -- Set start length to maximum if matching greedily or pattern ends with $.
      -- Otherwise set starting length to the minimum match length.
      IF greedy OR RIGHT(pattern, 1) = '$' THEN
        SET len = LEAST(CHAR_LENGTH(subject) - startPos + 1, maxMatchLen), lenInc = -1;
      ELSE
        SET len = minMatchLen, lenInc = 1;
      END IF;
      SET prevStartPos = startPos;
      lenLoop: WHILE len >= 1 AND len <= maxMatchLen
                 AND startPos + len - 1 <= CHAR_LENGTH(subject)
                 AND !(RIGHT(pattern, 1) = '$' 
                       AND startPos + len - 1 <> CHAR_LENGTH(subject)) DO
        SET subStr = SUBSTRING(subject, startPos, len);
        IF subStr REGEXP usePattern THEN
          SET result = IF(startInc = 1,
                          CONCAT(result, replacement), CONCAT(replacement, result));
          SET startPos = startPos + startInc * len;
          LEAVE lenLoop;
        END IF;
        SET len = len + lenInc;
      END WHILE;
      IF (startPos = prevStartPos) THEN
        SET result = IF(startInc = 1, CONCAT(result, SUBSTRING(subject, startPos, 1)),
                        CONCAT(SUBSTRING(subject, startPos, 1), result));
        SET startPos = startPos + startInc;
      END IF;
    END WHILE;
    IF startInc = 1 AND startPos <= CHAR_LENGTH(subject) THEN
      SET result = CONCAT(result, RIGHT(subject, CHAR_LENGTH(subject) + 1 - startPos));
    ELSEIF startInc = -1 AND startPos >= 1 THEN
      SET result = CONCAT(LEFT(subject, startPos), result);
    END IF;
  ELSE
    SET result = subject;
  END IF;
  RETURN result;
END//
DELIMITER ;

Demo

Rextester演示

限制

This method is of course going to take a while when the subject string is large. Update: Have now added minimum and maximum match length parameters for improved efficiency when these are known (zero = unknown/unlimited). It won't allow substitution of backreferences (e.g. \1, \2 etc.) to replace capturing groups. If this functionality is needed, please see this answer which attempts to provide a workaround by updating the function to allow a secondary find and replace within each found match (at the expense of increased complexity). If ^and/or $ is used in the pattern, they must be at the very start and very end respectively - e.g. patterns such as (^start|end$) are not supported. There is a "greedy" flag to specify whether the overall matching should be greedy or non-greedy. Combining greedy and lazy matching within a single regular expression (e.g. a.*?b.*) is not supported.

用法示例

该函数用于回答以下StackOverflow问题:

如何计数单词在MySQL /正则表达式 替代者? 如何提取第n个词和计数词出现在一个MySQL 字符串? 如何从文本字段中提取两个连续的数字 MySQL吗? 如何从一个字符串中删除所有非字母数字字符 MySQL吗? 如何替换MySQL中一个特定字符的每一个其他实例 字符串? 如何从MySQL表中的多个列中获得指定的最小长度的所有不同的单词?

我们不用正则表达式来解决这个问题 此查询只替换精确匹配字符串。

update employee set
employee_firstname = 
trim(REPLACE(concat(" ",employee_firstname," "),' jay ',' abc '))

例子:

emp_id employee_firstname 1杰 2 jay ajay 三杰

执行查询结果后:

emp_id employee_firstname 1美国广播公司 2 ABC ajay 3 abc

如果您使用的是MariaDB或MySQL 8.0，它们有一个功能

REGEXP_REPLACE(col, regexp, replace)

参见MariaDB文档和PCRE正则表达式增强

注意，您也可以使用regexp分组(我发现这非常有用):

SELECT REGEXP_REPLACE("stackoverflow", "(stack)(over)(flow)", '\\2 - \\1 - \\3')

返回

over - stack - flow

MySQL 8.0 +:

您可以使用本机REGEXP_REPLACE函数。

旧版本:

您可以使用用户定义函数(UDF)，如mysql-udf-regexp。

我最近写了一个MySQL函数来使用正则表达式替换字符串。你可以在以下地点找到我的职位:

http://techras.wordpress.com/2011/06/02/regex-replace-for-mysql/

下面是函数代码:

DELIMITER $$

CREATE FUNCTION  `regex_replace`(pattern VARCHAR(1000),replacement VARCHAR(1000),original VARCHAR(1000))
RETURNS VARCHAR(1000)
DETERMINISTIC
BEGIN 
 DECLARE temp VARCHAR(1000); 
 DECLARE ch VARCHAR(1); 
 DECLARE i INT;
 SET i = 1;
 SET temp = '';
 IF original REGEXP pattern THEN 
  loop_label: LOOP 
   IF i>CHAR_LENGTH(original) THEN
    LEAVE loop_label;  
   END IF;
   SET ch = SUBSTRING(original,i,1);
   IF NOT ch REGEXP pattern THEN
    SET temp = CONCAT(temp,ch);
   ELSE
    SET temp = CONCAT(temp,replacement);
   END IF;
   SET i=i+1;
  END LOOP;
 ELSE
  SET temp = original;
 END IF;
 RETURN temp;
END$$

DELIMITER ;

示例执行:

mysql> select regex_replace('[^a-zA-Z0-9\-]','','2my test3_text-to. check \\ my- sql (regular) ,expressions ._,');