Basically - so I can display it in the same form as the orginal table.. Or - if you want the longer version.... I work with an Opensource project called 'Aubit4GL' (its a clone of Informix4GL - which allows you to write really nice screen based database oriented programs + reports), see http://sourceforge.net/projects/aubit4gl
Anyway - part of that project is a tool called 'asql' (which is a replacement for the Informix 'isql' tool..), this tool is itself written using Aubit4GL. You can think of asql as an easy to use screen based (ncurses) equivilent of the mysql tool.. One of the options is a 'Table Info' - where you get a list of the columns and the datatypes etc. When you create a table with a char(20) - you dont want to see it appear as a char(60)! I have a workaround atm - but its really clunky - I do a separate select for each column in the form : "SHOW COLUMNS FROM table LIKE 'column'" for each column returned from mysql_list_fields BTW - I'll need some help with some of the other displays (indexes, status etc) - if anyone fancies lending a hand - we always welcome new volunteers! (The 'mysql' driver for Aubit4GL could probably do with some attention from someone who knows their way around....) On Tuesday 07 October 2008 13:10:18 walter harms wrote: > Mike Aubury schrieb: > > Excellent - this seems to be the issue - the show create table shows : > > > > mysql> show create table a\g > > +-------+---------------------------------------------------------------- > >------------------------+ > > > > | Table | Create > > > > Table > > | > > +-------+---------------------------------------------------------------- > >------------------------+ > > > > | a | CREATE TABLE `a` ( > > > > `blah` char(20) default NULL > > ) ENGINE=MyISAM DEFAULT CHARSET=utf8 | > > +-------+----------- > > > > > > So - its utf8 (which I understand enough about to understand why its > > doing what its doing!) > > > > So - the next question is... > > Is there anyway in code I can find the 'fiddle' factor (1,3,or now > > possibly 4) that I need to use to divide by to get back to the character > > width specified in the CREATE TABLE ? > > why do you want to do that ? > i would expect that mysql uses wchar_t for char() if utf8 is selected. > > re, > wh -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql To unsubscribe: http://lists.mysql.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]
