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On Mon, 23 Nov 1998, Ken Wills wrote:
> Hi!
>
> I have an annoying problem, that I just haven't been able to get around yet. When I parse the
> input from a form and go to insert it eveything works fine as long as the user doesn't use
> the ' character in the input. I've tried using qw{} and qq{}, which either don't interpolate
> or give me errors. Anyone have any suggestions? Postgres 6.4, Apache 1.3, mod_perl 1.16.
> The insert statement is below.
>
>
> my $query_string=qq{INSERT INTO CALLS (ca_service_id, ca_org_name, ca_phone_number, ca_status,
> ca_product, ca_problem, ca_resolution, ca_contact_name, ca_assigned, ca_date) VALUES ('$service_id',
> '$org_name', '$phone_number', '$status', '$product', '$problem', '$resolution', '$contact',
> '$assigned', '$time_now')};
escape your imput strings first...something like:
$phone_number =~ s/'/\\'/g;
Marc G. Fournier
Systems Administrator @ hub.org
primary: scrappy@hub.org secondary: scrappy@{freebsd|postgresql}.org
