Jay Fitzgerald wrote:

> displays fine now -- thanks for that help so far -- but the problem now
> (this may be normal, but I am not sure) is when I connect to the db and
> "select * from jobs;" the db is writing the entries like this:
>
> ===================
> mysql> select * from jobs;
> 
>+----+----------+----------+--------+---------+---------------------------------+----------+----------+--------+----------+
> | id | position | opendate | salary | appdate |
> duties                          | examples | training | skills | benefits |
> 
>+----+----------+----------+--------+---------+---------------------------------+----------+----------+--------+----------+
> |  1 | test     | test     | test   | test    | 1
> 2
> 3
>
> 4
> 5
> 6
>
> 7
> 8
> 9 | test     | test     | test   | test     |
> 
>+----+----------+----------+--------+---------+---------------------------------+----------+----------+--------+----------+
> ===================
>
> is this in fact normal?

Yes.

Since you have \n (and possibly \t, others) in the field, mysql is displaying them on 
the select.

b.



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