This is probably because a \ is normally treated as an escape character 

for things such as field delimeters - e.g. , " ' etc - and special
characters - e.g. @ =E9 =FA etc.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: mattslists@o...
> [mailto:mattslists@o...]
> Sent: 15 January 2001 10:53
> To: pro_jsp@p...
> Subject: [pro_jsp] DB query with a "\" on a string
>
>
> i have page that that checks a database for a string.  if the
> string is not
> there, i return an error message.  this all works fine until i place a

> backslash on the end of the string.  the string with the
> backslash does not
> exist in the DB.  any explanations, or should this be going
> to a DB list.  i
> am using mysql and tomcat on unix
>
> thanks