Hi All, I am trying to understand the behaviour of REGEXP_REPLACE when there is a backslash in the subject string. It appears that the subject needs to have \'s escaped which is not desirable (see example 1 below). I can understand having to escape \'s in the regex, but not the subject string. Any suggestions? Thanks. Welcome to the MariaDB monitor. Commands end with ; or \g. Your MariaDB connection id is 397751 Server version: 10.11.5-MariaDB MariaDB Server Copyright (c) 2000, 2018, Oracle, MariaDB Corporation Ab and others. Type 'help;' or '\h' for help. Type '\c' to clear the current input statement. MariaDB [(none)]> SELECT REGEXP_REPLACE('Et12\4', '^Et', 'Ethernet'); +---------------------------------------------+ | REGEXP_REPLACE('Et12\4', '^Et', 'Ethernet') | +---------------------------------------------+ | Ethernet124 | +---------------------------------------------+ 1 row in set (0.000 sec) MariaDB [(none)]> SELECT REGEXP_REPLACE('Et12\\4', '^Et', 'Ethernet'); +----------------------------------------------+ | REGEXP_REPLACE('Et12\\4', '^Et', 'Ethernet') | +----------------------------------------------+ | Ethernet12\4 | +----------------------------------------------+ 1 row in set (0.000 sec) MariaDB [(none)]> SELECT REGEXP_REPLACE('Et12/4', '^Et', 'Ethernet'); +---------------------------------------------+ | REGEXP_REPLACE('Et12/4', '^Et', 'Ethernet') | +---------------------------------------------+ | Ethernet12/4 | +---------------------------------------------+ 1 row in set (0.000 sec) MariaDB [(none)]> SELECT REGEXP_REPLACE('Et12 4', '^Et', 'Ethernet'); +---------------------------------------------+ | REGEXP_REPLACE('Et12 4', '^Et', 'Ethernet') | +---------------------------------------------+ | Ethernet12 4 | +---------------------------------------------+ 1 row in set (0.000 sec) -- Richard Ellerbrock