I found in the documention where you can use \tab and from playing I see I can use \n in a string and \ooo and use an octal value, but I've not found a way to include a character based on a hex representation of its ascii code... \x03 \X03 \0x03 \0X03 ...all failed in cases like this ... INSERT INTO mytable ( mystring ) VALUES ( 'This is a \x03 character.' ); ... so what's the trick? I hope I'm not missing something obvious. -- Bruce Tong | Got me an office; I'm there late at night. Systems Programmer | Just send me e-mail, maybe I'll write. Electronic Vision / FITNE | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | -- Joe Walsh for the 21st Century ************
