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

你“能”做到……但这不太明智……这是我最大胆的尝试……至于完整的RegEx支持，你最好使用perl或类似的。

UPDATE db.tbl
SET column = 
CASE 
WHEN column REGEXP '[[:<:]]WORD_TO_REPLACE[[:>:]]' 
THEN REPLACE(column,'WORD_TO_REPLACE','REPLACEMENT')
END 
WHERE column REGEXP '[[:<:]]WORD_TO_REPLACE[[:>:]]'

是的，你可以。

UPDATE table_name 
  SET column_name = 'seach_str_name'
  WHERE column_name REGEXP '[^a-zA-Z0-9()_ .\-]';

在MySQL 8.0+中，可以使用本地REGEXP_REPLACE函数。

12.5.2正则表达式:

REGEXP_REPLACE(expr, pat, repl[， pos[， occurrence[， match_type]]]) 将字符串expr中与模式pat指定的正则表达式匹配的事件替换为替换字符串repl，并返回结果字符串。如果expr、pat或repl为NULL，则返回值为NULL。

和正则表达式支持:

Previously, MySQL used the Henry Spencer regular expression library to support regular expression operators (REGEXP, RLIKE). Regular expression support has been reimplemented using International Components for Unicode (ICU), which provides full Unicode support and is multibyte safe. The REGEXP_LIKE() function performs regular expression matching in the manner of the REGEXP and RLIKE operators, which now are synonyms for that function. In addition, the REGEXP_INSTR(), REGEXP_REPLACE(), and REGEXP_SUBSTR() functions are available to find match positions and perform substring substitution and extraction, respectively.

SELECT REGEXP_REPLACE('Stackoverflow','[A-Zf]','-',1,0,'c'); 
-- Output:
-tackover-low

DBFiddle演示

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

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?