Gossamer Forum: General: Databases and SQL: ## as -- ???

Anyone got any ideas why a MySQLDump would give stuff like this out;

Code:
-- MySQL dump 8.22 
-- 
-- Host: localhost    Database: aceins_linkssql 
--------------------------------------------------------- 
-- Server version	3.23.54 

-- 
-- Table structure for table 'PayPal_Info' 
-- 

CREATE TABLE PayPal_Info ( 
  SetID int(11) NOT NULL auto_increment, 
  ItemName text NOT NULL, 
  ItemPrice float NOT NULL default '0', 
  ItemSales int(4) NOT NULL default '0', 
  CancelURL text NOT NULL, 
  Message text NOT NULL, 
  UNIQUE KEY SetID (SetID) 
) TYPE=MyISAM;

Note that the ##'s are replaced with --'s Crazy

I'm gonna do a temp fix, and just add a file open/read, and change the --'s into hashes. Anyone got an idea as to why it would do this though?

The query I am using is;

mysqldump -uusername -ppassword -hlocalhost database > /path/to/file/for/saving.sql

Cheers for any ideas:)

Andy (mod)
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