CREATE DEFINER = 'theorchard'@'10.10.%' FUNCTION stripSpecialCharsLong(dirty_string TEXT) RETURNS TEXT CHARSET utf8 DETERMINISTIC BEGIN /** * MySQL function to remove Special characters: \t, \n, \r and replace null with empty string * @param TEXT dirty_string : dirty string as input * @return TEXT clean_string : clean string as output * * Usage Syntax: stripSpecialCharsLong(string); * Usage SQL> SELECT stripSpecialCharsLong("sdfa7987\t\n\ru"); * result : 'sdfa7987u' */ RETURN IFNULL(TRIM(REPLACE(REPLACE(REPLACE(dirty_string, '\t', ''), '\n', ''), '\r', '')), ''); END DROP FUNCTION IF EXISTS stripSpecialCharsLong;