Retrieving single field from MySQL in MQL5 Solved!

[Ingvar Engelbrecht]

After a lot of trial and error, guesswork  and using the  debugger I got it solved!

Many days and many hours of frustration.  But,  "Nothing beats perserveance"

I guess it can be expanded to retrieve more than one field but for my purpose one field at the time works fine.

I have "faked" a "MySQL_Row"

struct Mysql_row

 {

   uchar header[8];        //Not used

   uchar data[50];          //maximum length on single field reply

};

 declare mysql_fetch_row like:

Mysql_row mysql_fetch_row(int result);

retrieve:

 //+------------------------------------------------------------------+
//| Get single field String value from MySQL                                      |
//+------------------------------------------------------------------+ 
 string getSTRField(string query2)
  {
   string ansiquery;
  
   Mysql_row my_row;
 
   ansiquery=UNICODE2ANSI(query2);  

   int length=StringLen(query2);
  
   int res2 = mysql_real_query(mysql,ansiquery,length);

   if(res2!=0)
    {
     Print("result of query  != 0!!  mysql:  "+IntegerToString(mysql) );
     Logger("getSTRField","query result", "mysgl:",IntegerToString(mysql) );
     int mysqlerr=mysql_errno(mysql);
     if (mysqlerr>0)
      {
       Print("Query: ",query2);
       Print("Returned error: ",ANSI2UNICODE(mysql_error(mysql)) );
       Logger( "Returned error: ", ANSI2UNICODE(mysql_error(mysql)) );   
      }
    }
   int res_store = mysql_store_result(mysql);

   if(res_store==0)
    {
     Print("ANSI2UNICODE(mysql_error(mysql)) ); = 0!!");
     Print("GetLastError MySQL:  " + DoubleToString(GetLastError(),0));
     Logger("getSTRField","GetLastError",DoubleToString(GetLastError(),0));
     return("");
    }
   int numOfRows = mysql_num_rows(res_store);
   int num_fields = mysql_num_fields(res_store);
  
   if(numOfRows==0)
    {
      Logger("No row found; ",query2);
      return("");
    }
    string head="";
    string dat ="";
   my_row = mysql_fetch_row(res_store);                //Only pick up first occurrence.
 
 //  for(int x = 0;x<8;x++)                            //Skip funny header
 //   {
 //     head = head + CharToString(my_row.header[x]);
 //   }
 
   for(int x = 0;x<50;x++)                             //get data, One field, maximum length 50
    {
      if(my_row.data[x] == 0) break;                   //end
      dat = dat + CharToString(my_row.data[x]);        //add it up in a string
    }
   mysql_free_result(res_store);
   return(dat);
   }