On Wed, May 30, 2001 at 11:20:02PM -0400, Randall Fitzgerald wrote:

> I am just wondering about the code to do a query for a string and
> then see if that string exists or not.  like finding the string for
> $user in a DB when $user would be inserted into a table named users
> as username to see fi it is used or not.

That's what SELECT queries are used for in SQL. You might want to
check a tutorial on SQL. Google can find many of them for you. :-)

Jeremy
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