On Wed, Aug 16, 2006 at 01:20:08AM -0400, Jasbinder Bali wrote: > This is how the array is formed in my C code > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > FILE *fp; > > while(!feof(fp)) > {ch[i]=fgetc(fp); > if(ch[i]=='\n') lines++; i++; } > ch[i-1]='\0'; > fclose(fp); > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > and then am inserting ch as a whole in the varchar column in the database. > > Do you want me to append a leading '{' and a trailing '}' to ch?? Do you intend to handle the data as an array in SQL? If not then the raw_email column should be declared as varchar or text instead of varchar[]. In that case your C code won't need to change. -- Michael Fuhr