- Yes I am using DBI. That's perfect, I didnt realize they had this functionality, but it makes alot of sense that they do. Thank you, thank you.
Wiggins D Anconia wrote: > > I cant find a simple perl function to replace characters in a string. Im > > trying to inserts strings like "bob's" into a database and need to convert > > that to "bob''s" so that sql doesnt whine when i do an insert. > > > > Any suggestions? > > > There are regex's and the tr/y functions/operators? But in this case you > shouldn't use either and instead use binding (assuming you are using > DBI, are you?). Binding allows DBI/DBD which is very smart decide how > the data needs to be quoted rather than attempting to do this manually > which usually just leads to problems. > http://search.cpan.org/~timb/DBI-1.42/DBI.pm#Placeholders_and_Bind_Values > Alternatively if binding can't be used, there is the 'quote' method for > handling this specific task (on same page as above). > http://danconia.org -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://learn.perl.org/> <http://learn.perl.org/first-response>
