>From the returned results create a comma delimited list containing unique
identifiers of the returned results and then in your SQL statement, have
DELETE FROM ... WHERE ... NOT IN (comma delimited)
----- Original Message -----
From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Friday, March 30, 2001 9:02
Subject: Delete?
> Hi,
>
> I`m just trying to figure out the best method to delete my records and
> wondered if it was possible to do a DELETE statement to remove any records
> that don`t match.
>
> Here is my code so far
>
> $Query="select blah its huge:-)";
> $RESULT=mysql_query($Query);
> $my_rows=mysql_num_rows($RESULT);
>
> for ($a=0; $a<$my_rows; $a++)
> {
> mysql_data_seek($RESULT, $a);
> $Array = mysql_fetch_array($RESULT);
> printf("%s", $Array['Email']);
> }
>
> My Query returns Matched Records, what I would like to achieve is deletion
of
> the records that didn`t match, would it be possible to do that under the
> printf statement. So delete all the records in the table that don`t match
up
> to $Array['Email'] ??
>
> Thanks for any input
> Ade
>
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