Re: mysql_real_query and escaping a semicolon

[Paul DuBois]

At 8:37 -0600 4/29/02, Anna Fowles-Winkler wrote:
>Gerald Clark wrote:
>
>>  The semicolon does not belong there.
>
>Where?  At the end of the query or in the string?
>
>--Anna

At the end.  Semicolons are perfectly legal in data values (which is
why this whole episode seems odd), but you don't put them at the
end of a statement.  That's a convention used by the mysql client
that you don't follow when using an API directly.