The semicolon does not belong there.

Anna Fowles-Winkler wrote:

>Anna Fowles-Winkler wrote:
>
>>Paul DuBois wrote:
>>
>>>>Paul DuBois wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> At 14:37 -0600 4/26/02, Anna Fowles-Winkler wrote:
>>>>> >Well, the function is called like this:
>>>>> >
>>>>> >mysql_real_query( mysql_connection, query_string, strlen( query_string ));
>>>>> >
>>>>> >Wouldn't that pass the correct length?
>>>>>
>>>>> Not necessarily.
>>>>>
>>>>Uhm... why not?  Wouldn't strlen return the length of the string, ie, the
>>>>number of characters, and wouldn't that be the length in bytes?
>>>>
>>>>--Anna
>>>>
>>>Because mysql_real_query() allows the possibility that the query
>>>string contains binary data (including null bytes), in which case
>>>strlen() won't necessarily be correct.
>>>
>>>*IF* the query string doesn't have anything like that in it,
>>>then your call should work.  I just find it hard to believe that
>>>a semicolon would cause any problem.
>>>
>>The query string doesn't have anything binary, and the call doesn't work.  I get a
>>syntax error right before the semicolon.
>>
>>This is my query string:
>>INSERT INTO micromodels
>> (name, revision, dynamic, m_class, novars, equation, min_0, min_1,
>> min_2, min_3, min_4, min_5, min_6, min_7, min_8, max_0, max_1,
>> max_2, max_3, max_4, max_5, max_6, max_7, max_8, except_0,
>> except_1, except_2, except_3, except_4, except_5, except_6,
>> except_7, except_8, prompt_0, prompt_1, prompt_2, prompt_3, prompt_4,
>> prompt_5, prompt_6, prompt_7, prompt_8, allow_0, allow_1, allow_2,
>> allow_3, allow_4, allow_5, allow_6)
>>   VALUES ('Eye Movement
>>Time',1,NULL,'per',0,'.1;',0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,NULL,NULL,NULL,NULL,NULL,NULL,NULL,NULL,NULL,0,0,0,0,0,0,1);
>>
>>And I get this error:
>>
>>You have an error in your SQL syntax near ' '1.' at line 10
>>
>>Kind of weird.  I tried upping the strlen by 1, and that didn't work either.
>>
>>Thanks for any suggestions,
>>Anna
>>
>
>To make it more interesting, I can submit the query into MySQL either thru the 
>command line monitor or thru a -e mysql command line call (mysql -uuser
>-ppassword -e "query"), and it works fine!
>
>--Anna
>
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