On Thursday 12 June 2008, Warren Young wrote: > Tim Johnson wrote: > > I can not locate a C api function to _unescape_ strings. > > Why do you believe you need one? > > You need to escape strings when building SQL query strings to avoid > problems with quote characters, which are special in SQL. When MySQL > returns the queried data to your program, it's not using a SQL query to > do so. It just gives the data back in a directly usable form. Not sure what you mean by "directly usable". If I do an insert statement with a backslash, for example: "headline\one", I will retrieve "headline\\one", and that will need to be unescaped, because it is not a true representation of what was submitted by the original insert. tim
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