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Posted by erik on October 31, 2001 at 9:12 AM

How are you pulling the string from the database?

If you use a ResultSet populated from a Statement object with some SQL.. you can retrieve any field type from the database by using the ResultSet.getString("fieldName")... this will return a string object from the fieldName no matter its type in the database...

> Hi,

> I am currently trying to display a text string I have placed in a MYSQL table using JSP and Tomcat. I am having a few problems though. The connection is fine and when it is displayed the string is displaying goobldy gook like this - [B@80dd124

> Yet when I change the database from a text string to a varchar or char string it displays fine. I want to use the text string as others will be inputing data in. Any ideas as to why this might be happening? Can someone please help me?

> Thanks