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MySQL in a Nutshell, 2nd Edition

This function returns a results set containing a list of databases found for the current connection. An expression may be given to select databases whose names match a certain pattern. The % or _ characters may be used as wildcards. If NULL is given for the second argument, the names of all databases on the server will be selected in the results set. Here is an example:

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MYSQL_RES *result;
MYSQL_ROW row;
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result = mysql_list_dbs(mysql, NULL);
while((row = mysql_fetch_row(result)) != NULL)
   { printf("%s \n", row[0]);  }
mysql_free_result(result);
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This excerpt extracts a list of databases from the server using the mysql_list_dbs() function and stores the results. Using the mysql_fetch_row() function, each row of the results set is stored temporarily for printing. To extract a list of databases with “work” in the name, replace NULL with "%work%“. As with all results sets, release the resources with mysql_free_result() when finished.