Re: Escaping &

try using the SUBSTR function to check each string for the first char as a "&". if it does have it, strip and continue the process... "Rankin, Randy" wrote: > > Hello, > > I have a table in a MySQL DB (RH Linux/Apache) with a field called > customer_name. Some of the customer names have an ampersand in them (ie; X & > X Supply). I am performing a select statement on this table to create a > sales summary with customer name and total sales. > > This works fine; however, I am also creating a dynamic link on the customer > name so that the user can click on it to get a detailed report of sales to > that customer. This works great EXCEPT for the customers with ampersands in > thier names. The result of clicking on these customers indicates a "No > Records found for X" where X is the letter immediately preceding the > ampersand. > > Does anyone know how to get around this? > -- Leo G. Divinagracia III ldivinag@csuhayward.edu