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If you wanted to trim leading and trailing characters, you would use the keyword BOTH

mysql> mysql> SELECT TRIM(BOTH 'XXX' FROM "XXXFileNameXXX"); +----------------------------------------+ | TRIM(BOTH 'XXX' FROM "XXXFileNameXXX") | +----------------------------------------+ | FileName                               | +----------------------------------------+ 1 row in set (0.00 sec) mysql>