On Sun, Apr 08, 2001 at 10:34:17PM -0600, Jack A. Tinsley Jr. wrote:
>
> First, things, first - I am a newbie to MySQL but I have it up and
> running quite well. The only thing I haven't been able to figure
> out is why I'm losing "\" (back slashes) in my stored data. I have
> a application I'm considering MySQL for and one table must have a
> column containing a UNC path. When I insert the value of
> "\\server\folder", MySQL turns it into "\serverfolder" - very
> strange. I've set this column up as a varchar.
The "\" character is an escape character, often used to include
otherwise "special" characters in your data. To include a literal "\"
in your data, you need to actually double it up "\\".
Jeremy
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