Re: Problems with Quotes - Mailing list pgsql-sql

Ah!  Fantastic.

Thank you so much.   I'm still not entirely sure _why_ that works, but it does... so I can go home now!  ;)

Thanks again!


-----Original Message-----
From: Edmund Bacon [mailto:ebacon@onesystem.com] 
Sent: 12 January 2005 18:47
To: pgsql-sql@postgresql.org
Cc: Kieran Ashley
Subject: Re: [SQL] Problems with Quotes

Kieran Ashley wrote:
> I tried that.  It starts spitting out the rest of the script to STDIN until it gets to the next " (which is being
usedto quote a table name about 100 lines further on" at which point it throws an error, and dies.
 
> 
> It seems it really wants me to escape it somehow, but neither '\"' or ''"' seems to work.
> 
>
Perhaps you are forgetting to double up on your quote chars?

THis seems to work for me:

e.g.

test=# create or replace function bar(text)
test-# returns text
test-# language 'plpgsql'
test-# as 'begin return replace($1, ''"'', ''''); end;';
CREATE FUNCTION
test=# select bar('hello');  bar
------- hello
(1 row)

test=# select bar('hello "world"');     bar
------------- hello world
(1 row)

test=#


> -----Original Message-----
> From: John DeSoi [mailto:desoi@pgedit.com] 
> Sent: 12 January 2005 18:18
> To: Kieran Ashley
> Cc: pgsql-sql@postgresql.org
> Subject: Re: [SQL] Problems with Quotes
> 
> 
> On Jan 12, 2005, at 1:08 PM, Kieran Ashley wrote:
> 
> 
>>I've tried using the replace() function to get rid of the ", but I 
>>can't figure out how to use it without throwing an error.  I tried
>>
>>replace(col_name, '\"', '')
>>
>>and several other permutations but to no avail, do I need to use 
>>something like an ASCII character code in order to get rid of a quote? 
>> If so which one, and if not, is there a better solution?
>>
> 
> 
> 
> Try '"' as in
> 
> select replace('this "is" it', '"', '');
>    replace
> ------------
>   this is it
> (1 row)
> 
> 
> John DeSoi, Ph.D.
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