Re: I need the delimiter command

[Peter Brawley]

> 1) This database code is only a fraction of the program

If you need it, you need it.

> 2)If I used a client as a middle man, this then becomes a dependency for the large program

?! The DB is already a dependency.

> 3)I do not speak the other API languages

That's a problem. To write software that addreses MySQL, you need competetency in one of its API languages.

> very difficult even if they had the best of documentation- most have barely any

I don't understand. There's reams of docs for C, PHP, Java, C# ...

> . Also it would require a UDP or TCP connection for the commands. This alone most likely removes almost all clients.
> I could use a dll calls but only if the client software was as documentated as microsoft APIs are.

Not if you use an existing API.

> 4) This is not for a website or webpage data retrieval directly as is the most common use case.

MySQL .Net and Java APIs do not assume a web context.

As I have said I am using an obscure language so there is no clean fit and I do not read or write C or C++.

Ad you're stuck with the "obscure language", whatever it is?

> If I knew where to look in the code might be able to reverse engineer the command, but I could not even find it.

For what your requirement appears to be, there seem to be just two choices: use an existing API, or work from existing C//C++ code to roll your own.

> How did anyone write a client to software that does not describe an important command as this?

Many of the APIs started with the C/C++ code---necessarily, since that's what's MySQL is written in.

You might find something helpful in the Source/Builds/Binaries, or ask there.