[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Mike Aubury) writes: > I'm probably being a bit stupid - but I'm trying to determine (in code) the > length of the string in the schema for a given table. > > So - for example : > > > create table a ( > blah char(20) > ) > > > I want to return '20', but I'm getting '60' when I use mysql_list_fields.. > (Always seems to be 3x longer that I'm expecting)... > > Am I missing something ? (or should I just divide by 3!!)
Is the table or database using UTF-8? I think that if it is MySQL will allocate space for each character and is forced to allocate 3x20 bytes as a UTF-8 character can be up to 3-bytes in length. SHOW CREATE TABLE a\G should show if this is the case. Simon -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql To unsubscribe: http://lists.mysql.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]
