From: Date: October 19 2004 1:22am Subject: Preserving backslashes in DML List-Archive: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql/174405 Message-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----_=_NextPart_001_01C4B569.4F48A781" ------_=_NextPart_001_01C4B569.4F48A781 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable What are the options available for inserting\updating a MySQL table VARCHAR with a string containing backslash characters so that the backslash characters are preserved as is? For example, the UNC string '\\MyServer\MyDir ' would be changed on the way in to the VARCHAR to become '\MyServerMyDir'. What options are there for specifying that this changing on the way in should NOT be done? =20 ------_=_NextPart_001_01C4B569.4F48A781--