On Sat, 2004-08-28 at 00:48, I wrote:
> I know this is more along the lines of a c question; however, I am
> trying to write a loop to iterate insertions into a mysql database and
> was hoping someone would have a quick fix for this.
> 
> I am used to using php with the luxury of the following syntax
> 
> < some loop giving values $column1 and $column2 usually from some array 
> or parsing of a file>
> 
> $query = mysql_query( "insert into my_table values ( null, '$column1',
> 'some description $column2'" );
> 
> < next iteration >
> 
> Can anyone just show a one liner of how to do this in c where the values
> are column1 and column2?  I know there is a string concatenation
> function, it just seems so clumsey to write it out, get the string
> length of each of the two variables and create a new longer line.  I
> won't be suprised if that is what I have to do though.  ( being new to c
> and finding out how much more work it entails:-) ).
> 
> Hope this make since at nearly 1 am.  Been a long day...
> 
> 

OK, hate to answer my own question but sprintf is what I was looking
for.  It is hard to switch languages!  Especially in this direction. ;-)


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