From: Warren Young
Date: June 28 2005 11:59pm
Subject: Re: field_num("pippo") = ????????
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Paoletti Vincenzo wrote:

> First,the field "pippo" doesn't exist,
> the value of result.field_num("pippo") is == result.columns() and the sys doesn't throw exception

I can make field_num throw a BadFieldName exception in this case.

But field_num() is mostly an internal-use function, so it should never 
fail.  Perhaps there is a better way to get the information you want 
from MySQL++ that is safer.  Is Row::lookup_by_name() suitable, for 
instance?