From: Christian Mack
Date: March 12 1999 8:08pm
Subject: Re: field types needed from mysql database
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Jiri Cuypers wrote:
> 
>    Hi,
> 
> I'm writing a dynamic form handler, which dumps the form data into the
> correct fields of a database.
> I still need a way to find out which type a particular field has in the
> database, in order to know whether I need quotes or not when i do an
> insert into.
> 
> I'm using perl 5.004 with DBI::MySql and apache.
> 
> thanks in advance.
> Jiri

Hi Jiri

Why don't you always quote?
MySQL has an internal conversion of types.

Tschau
Christian