Re: [INTERFACES] Re: ecpg - `exec sql delete' failing (fwd)

On Mon, 6 Apr 1998, Herouth Maoz wrote:

> > scanf("%s", &reply);
> > if(reply == 'y') {
> > printf("\t\tEnter Client ID Number: ");
> > scanf("%d", &delete_num);
> > EXEC SQL DELETE FROM central WHERE client_id = delete_num;
> > }
> > else printf("Exiting...record not removed.\n");
> > exit(0);
> > }
>
> I've already told you about scanning into a char with %s - and you haven't
> fixed it. Anyway, I have another suspicion - shouldn't the delete above be
> "DELETE FROM central WHERE client_id = :delete_num" (with ":")?

Herouth - tried it just now...

> Seems to me that without using colon, it may think that delet_num is a
> column name.

This fails as well...hmm...back to the drawing board! Let me try it as
a separate function.

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