Question

I have this piece of code:

BEGIN
    DECLARE @NewLine CHAR(2)
    SET @NewLine = CHAR(13)+CHAR(10)
END

When I run it in phpmyadmin, I get this error:

#1064 - You have an error in your SQL syntax; check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use near 'DECLARE @NewLine CHAR(2) SET @NewLine = CHAR(13) + CHAR(10) END' at line 2

I used about 2 hours on Google, without any luck. As far as I can tell, it should be the right syntax.
Someone please help

Answer 1

Flow statements like IF, WHEN and so on are only allowed in stored procedures or function in MySQL. BEGIN and END are delimiters of such statements.

Put that code in a procedure and it should work.

Edit

Example procedure

DELIMITER // 
CREATE PROCEDURE newline_proc(input varchar(1000))
BEGIN
  declare newline char(2);
  select CHAR(13)+CHAR(10) into newline;
  ...
END//
DELIMITER ;