MySQL failed to select...help?

When going through the phpadmin, it looks like there is a new line after the email address.

I can delete the field through phpadmin, but i need to fix my select statement so that it will remove these kinds of emails when an admin goes through the CMS.

Is there any way to do a select that also selects any kinds of whitespace?

Just for test purpose, try:

SELECT * FROM `User` WHERE Trim(email) = "xx00xx@xxxxx.ca";

or even:

SELECT * FROM `User` WHERE email = "%xx00xx@xxxxx.ca%";

It is never a good idea to have function on the left side of = in Where clause. My though was to see if the email in the database accidentally is padded by blank spaces.

Hi eghtebas,

Thanks. Neither of those actually worked. It still returned empty result set. What are the other possible gotchas ?

"xx00xx@xxxxx.ca" is some variation to "xxxxxx@xxxxx.ca"

Are there some other variations so you can test to see how they behave. This way we may see the cause and effect a bit clearly.

This again is shooting in the dark. But this time it may reveal something new.

Hi Eghtebas,

I have tested SELECT against other values in the database.

Apparently, users with emails entered by a mass subscription script are all not selectable. Furthermore, using phpadmin edit mode, and phpstorm database tables edit mode, i can confirm that these users have 2 lines in their email fields.

On the other hand, users who self registered, can be selected, and have only 1 line for their emails.

I've dug out the script the original coder used, and it looks like he used the following script to mass subscribe users :

<?php 
	include 'common.php';

	$handle = @fopen("/var/www/staff/email.txt", "r");
	global $db;
	if ($handle) {
		while (($buffer = fgets($handle, 4096)) !== false) {
			$sql = "INSERT INTO User (fName, email, type, institution) VALUES(
				'User',
				'".$buffer."',
				'0',
				'Brock'
			);";
			//echo $sql;
			$db->query($sql);
			
		}
		if (!feof($handle)) {
			echo "Error: unexpected fgets() fail\n";
		}
		fclose($handle);
	}

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What seems to be the problem with this insert Script?
How can i do a select statement that will select these emails irrelevant of whether there is an extra line or not in the email field?
If that is not possible, is there a way to remove the extra lines only from emails that has an extra empty line?

Thank you

Thank you !!!

This worked :

SELECT * FROM `User` WHERE LEFT(email, InStr(email,'\n') -1) = "xx00xx@xxxx.ca" ORDER BY `email` ASC