RE: [INTERFACES] Still have problem with single quotation mark - Mailing list pgsql-interfaces

From Michael Wentzel
Subject RE: [INTERFACES] Still have problem with single quotation mark
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Msg-id A1C69E9A4D29D311AFE000A024CA0B0B5EDA@snax.thwt.com
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>There is still a problem with the single quotation mark (') inside a
>string, when this string is inserted into the database and one uses 'ecpg'.
>Someone on this list told me, that I should precede a ' with a second '
>(''). Then it would not be interpreted as the end of string. I did this and
>realy, now it is not interpreted at all. 'ecpg' puts now both quotation
>marks into the database table. This makes for example the words 'I don't
>want this' appear as 'I don''t want this'. Preceding the quotation mark
>with a backslash does not help also. Then I get the SQL error 'too many
>arguments in line xxx'. This is really annoying. How can I fix this?


Try escape characters.  For example to place a single quote in a text field
use \' instead of ' the backslash tells SQL interpreter that the next
character
is not a special character but simply part of the string.  Other examples
are:

\\ interprets as a single backslash character in the string
\" interprets as a double quote character in the string

Hope this helps.


Mike Wentzel
THWT Software


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