Sorry I misread what the question was asking since I have run into MySQL related problems that are not problems in other databases, so I just wanted to check that out. You would have to have some function that could read a resultset similar to the "select * from colors where data !='blue';" since MySQL does not allow you to just have the id returned. Once you have the ids you need in a resultset you may just read unique id's and store it in a list.
By the way have you had a chance to make the ids unique when calling the statement. My sytax is not correct since I just tried it, but the query should be similar to "select unique id from colors where data != 'blue';". I am going to try and find some information on using unique, but I think I remember also having a problem with using unique. Please let me know if this was of help since I think we both will be having problems that are not related but are isomorphically logical. Sorry for the confusion, and I don't know perl, but I do know that when you make a field the primary key, it uses a hash function to find that id. --------------------------------------------------------------------- Before posting, please check: http://www.mysql.com/manual.php (the manual) http://lists.mysql.com/ (the list archive) To request this thread, e-mail <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, e-mail <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Trouble unsubscribing? Try: http://lists.mysql.com/php/unsubscribe.php
