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"YL" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 09/02/2005 04:18:27 PM:
> I've 2 basic questions. thanks for responses:
>
> (1) Suppose i have a table with a varchar colum named options which
stores
> option id's in the form
> "(id1, id2, , idk)", where id1,... are string repr
please write 2 emails for 2 unrelated questions, that said I will tackle
#2
you have all those line drawing chars since the field is very wide.
The MySQL client does not 'know' about new lines, it just prints them out,
so each one is counted as one char.
in your client you can ask for help,