Is the backslash \ counted as a character in MySQL?

Question

if i have a table which has columns with fixed lenght, Will mySQL count the backslashes as characters?

Example :

people(name[10],age[3])

If i store in the name column a MySQL escaped value like : Blahblah\'s Will MySQL cut it at the quote?

Thanks

Answer 1

No, escape characters do not add the length of char or varchar string, because escape characters are not stored at all.

CREATE TABLE a (name char(5));

INSERT INTO a VALUES ('1234567890');
INSERT INTO a VALUES ('12\'345678');

SELECT * FROM a;
+-------+
| name  |
+-------+
| 12345 | 
| 12'34 | 
+-------+
2 rows in set (0.00 sec)