Hi all

I've a simple problem I can't solve by myself, I apologize for that.

I want to clean up a mysql database, derived by ms access, with spaces where they shouldn't be, parsing/reading a mysqldump and converting spaces into underscores...

for example: 

create table `table name`(
   `field name1` type1 not null default 'x',
   `field name2` type2 default null,
   ...
   primary key (`pk name`),
   key `key name` (`field name1`, `field name2`)
) engine=other things here;

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I would like this converted to: 
create table `table_name`(
   `field_name1` type1 not null default 'x',
   `field_name2` type2 default null,
   ...
   primary key (`pk_name`),
   key `key_name` (`field_name1`, `field_name2`)
) engine=other things here;

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this means that everything in the format of: 
  m/`\w+\s+\w+[\s+\w+]+`/  # backticks

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should be transformed into a string with spaces converted to underscores (another option could be the camel case: something like `field name` into: `fieldName`)

I understand there must be a very efficient and compact solution, but I'm losing myself in a sql parsing without success.

Please enlighten my way...

In reply to Regexp in mysqldump by brozzis

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