I am thinking that the question is how to insert a character in the # character of a data that is already in the database, maybe I am reading the question the wrong way, but maybe that is what the question is data --- maybe and wants to insert 'x' in the 3rd position to make the data as maxybe Don't know for sure without an example of how the insert is wanting to work --- In php-objects@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, "Roland Bu'ulölö" <bull.roland@...> wrote: > > try: > mysql_query("INSERT INTO tablename SET textfield = > '".mysql_escape_string($strvar_with_hash_char)."'"); > > On 7/24/07, Sergio de A.Gonzalez <sergioag@...> wrote: > > > > How to make an insert in a mysql database in string type the '#' > > character? > > Thanks > > sergio > > > > > > > > -- > ~ R.L.B. ~ > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] >