Hello. On Mon 2002-12-09 at 09:22:09 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I am using PHP on my website, but this is certainly a MySQL question. > > > That shouldn't matter, because the real value $var is inserted before > > the query is send to the MySQL server, where REGEXP of the query is > > evaluated. If there is a problem, you need to be much more > > specific. Quote the error message, show the relevant part of your code > > and so on. > > The real value of $var is not inserted before it is sent to the server.
Why not? What is $var? You called it a variable, and there are no variables of the form $var in MySQL, but only @var. So I presumed that you mean a PHP variable by $var. If that is not the case, please be more specific, as I already asked you. Else, this will become a guessing game. If it is the case, PHP will replace $var by its value and send the modified query to MySQL, without the $ sign. If you have reason to believe otherwise, please cite an example. But I am repeating myself. [...] > So the questions still remains, how do I get REGEXP to treat $var as a > variable and not part of its own syntax. In order to make $ non-special, you have to escape it by a backslash. In order to get the backslash to the server, you have also to escape the backslash. How often depends on your exact statement (which kind of quotes you use, etc.) > I have been looking at http://www.mysql.com/doc/en/Regexp.html, but > it does not cover this. You are right. This page fails to mention how to handle special characters at all. HTH, Benjamin. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
