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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