Btw - Sorry about the subject line. > Actually, I think maybe a doc patch is in order instead. The goal of the > parse_* methods is to parse things returned _by MySQL_ as a result of > queries, not to parse any format that MySQL itself might accept.
Aww, thats not the asumption I was working under. Are you sure that no one would want to parse the _all_ the formats MySQL accepts? Perhaps a relaxed flag is in order? Cheers, -J --