I can see my error now with the string, thanks. I think the best thing to do will be to check for the timestamp and do a bind_param. How would you build a regex to check for the timestamp?

/\d\d\d\d\-\d\d\-\d\d \d\d:\d\d:\d\d\-\d\d/
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Possibly??
Thank you for all of you help today. Bradley