On Fri, Sep 19, 2003 at 15:02:07 -0600, Louise Cofield <lcofield@box-works.com> wrote:
>
> I am creating a Libpq program that reads a text file, and inserts values
> into a Postgres table. An example of my insert statement looks like
> this:
>
> SPRINTF(str, "INSERT INTO itm_table (itm_num, itm_desc) values ('%s',
> '%s');", sitmnum, sitmdesc);
>
> Other than stripping the offending quote-marks from the text prior to
> processing, does anybody have any ideas how I can deal with this?
Scan the input and put backslashes in front of backslashes and single quotes.
