mysql query that returns a char value rather then a bool
 

anyone happen to know the correct code to query the database row/column and return the char* variable of the info in the cell rather then a bool on whether it exists or not.

I'm not sure what it is you're trying to do, but you can get the full MySQL documentation at www.mysql.com/documentation/

There's a chapter in there that deals with the C/C++ API.