On Thursday 12 June 2008, Warren Young wrote: > Tim Johnson wrote: > > Not sure what you mean by "directly usable". > > I mean "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. > > My perspective is a little different from yours: as the maintainer of > MySQL++ (http://tangentsoft.net/mysql++/), I have never actually used > the C API directly. I don't have any pure C sample code here to tweak > to try things. Me neither - not any more anyway, since I quit coding in C & C++ years ago.. Furthermore, I am also working with a scripting language new to me. My experience is with python - where unescaping is _not_ an issue and rebol, where unescaping _is_ an issue. Python using the API (somewhere buried deep in the MySQLdb modules, and rebol using a direct socket connection on port 3306.
> Instead, I changed one of the MySQL++ examples to insert a string with a > backslash into the DB, and on retrieving the rows, I get a single > backslash. In the C++ code, the backslash is doubled due to C/C++ > string parsing rules, but that's only one character in the underlying > string data. Due to the way this example uses MySQL++, that string gets > automatically escaped on DB insertion, so I presume it's sent over the > wire as two backslashes, though I haven't verified it. Then when you > retrieve rows through MySQL++, it returns a fairly direct copy of the > data the C API gives you, with no real translation going on. I'm seeing the same that you are with the language (newlisp) that I am "playing" with. > > MySQL++ doesn't have an "unescape" function, so I don't see why your > program would need one. I believe that you are correct. If not a single regex should handle it, and be fairly fast. Thanks for the input. I really appreciate it. Best regards tim(looking at MySQL++) -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql To unsubscribe: http://lists.mysql.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]
