commit 16a66c80a51b166635d51e36433b128b4477c85c
Author: vlw <victor@vlw.se>
Date:   Thu Mar 12 10:33:00 2026 +0100

    add: "mysql_sanitize_string.sql"

diff --git a/mysql_sanitize_string.sql b/mysql_sanitize_string.sql
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..0245a7c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/mysql_sanitize_string.sql
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+DELIMITER $$
+
+CREATE FUNCTION remove_bracketed_text(input_text TEXT) 
+RETURNS TEXT DETERMINISTIC
+BEGIN
+	DECLARE output_text TEXT DEFAULT input_text;
+	DECLARE previous_text TEXT;
+
+	-- Loop until no more bracketed text is found
+	REPEAT
+		SET previous_text = output_text;
+		SET output_text = REGEXP_REPLACE(output_text COLLATE utf8mb4_unicode_ci, '\\[[^]]*\\]', '');
+	UNTIL output_text = previous_text
+	END REPEAT;
+
+	RETURN output_text;
+END $$
+
+DELIMITER ;