On Tue, Jul 09, 2002 at 11:41:47PM -0700, Fargo Lee wrote:
> got it to assign a 0 (success) or 1 (failure) to the return_var argument as
> you suggested so I am happy.
Good!
> What mixed me up and I still don't understand is the manual entry for
> system() says ...
>
> "Returns the last line of the command output on success, and FALSE on
> failure."
>
> When it says it "Returns", where does it return this information and how can
> it be captured for comparison?
The thing that's tripping you up is, I believe, executing MySQL programs
at a prompt doesn't produce any visible output. But, if you executed a
command that returns some output to STDOUT, like "ls", you'd see the last
line of output therefrom in the "Return."
--Dan
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