Re: Please HELP: insert row ...

On Sat, Oct 14, 2000 at 04:15:11AM +0000, Thu Huynh wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Does anyone know how to insert/update data that contains single quote (')
> into a field? Data such as: John's house is in Dalas.

Via Perl, I always wrap any strings with the following sub (adapted
from a similar sub of mmusic by ChLorenz@csi.com, and incorporating
advice from this list (David Rugge, 1 Aug 1999, and some
experimentation).

sub stdstr {
    my $or = $_[0];
    $or =~ s /\\/\\\\/g;
    $or =~ s /\'/\\\'/g;
    $or =~ s /\"/\\\"/g;
    $or =~ s /%/\\%/g;
    return $or;
}

Basically you have to quote \ ' " % (even though I am no longer sure
about the reasons for some of these; but quoting certainly cannot do
any harm). Works for me.

HTH,

Albert.


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