At 11:35 -0400 10/4/04, Jeff Burgoon wrote:
Why does selecting backslash give me an error?

select "\"

gives me...

#1064 - You have an error in your SQL syntax.  Check the manual that
corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use near
'"\"' at line 1



select "/"

returns "/"



select "\\"

returns "\"

What's the deal w/ backslash?

It's an escape character in strings:

http://dev.mysql.com/doc/mysql/en/String_syntax.html

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