Re: What terminates a query?

[Dan Nelson]

In the last episode (Dec 23), Matt Young said:
> My sql command pipes its result to a perl program (in batch mode) .
> but the perl program has no waf to tell when the query is finished. 
> HTTP uses a blank line to signal the end. but there is no such thing
> for mysql.

If you are doing something like "mysql -e 'select * from mytable' |
perlprogram", just check for end-of-file.

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	Dan Nelson
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