Larry Garfield wrote: > IIRC, the way in SQL to circumvent that is to convert "100%" into > "100%%". However, that does rather defeat the purpose of a prepared > statement if I have to do my own escaping anyway, does it not? Depends on what you perceive the purpose of the prepared statement to be :-) In this context, I tend to think of performance only. Which is generally why I can't be bothered with prepared statements in php. /Per Jessen, Zürich -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php