Hi
On Monday 09 April 2001 05:34, 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.
Actually, this behaviour is not strange it is correct, since the '\'
character is considered an escape character. If you want to insert the value
"\\server\folder" you would need to add extra '\' characters i.e.
"\\\server\\folder"
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