On 26 Aug 2000 12:42 Charles Curley wrote:
>The oddity I have hit is that if I try to inset a name with an apostrophe
>in it (e.g. O'Neil), pgsql belly-aches and returns an error of 7. The
>record is not inserted.
Perl will escape the apostrophe and will not pass the backslash on to the
backend. You will need to use a double backslash:
$sql = "INSERT INTO contacts VALUES ('Mr.','Patrick','O\\'Neil','http://URL')";
Tony
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