[EMAIL PROTECTED] [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] wrote: > What about swapping ' for '' ? Is the insertion of '' safe across the > board, or is this dbms specific ?
I believe(?) that's dbms specific - better to use dbi "quote" function, and *best* to use placeholders. Read about placeholders by doing perldoc DBI at a command prompt - provided you have DBI installed. HTH. -- Hardy Merrill Senior Software Engineer Red Hat, Inc. > > I ask because having come from programming in other environments, I am > already used to placing my sql commands through a formating function that > swaps a single ' for two '', and just stuck with this method for perl. > > -Josh > > Original Message: > ----------------- > From: Kipp, James [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Date: Tue, 15 Oct 2002 15:07:13 -0400 > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: RE: :: delimiting apostrophes to insert data w/o errors :: > > > you can try the qw(...) function or use the DBI 'quote' method. > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Hastie, Christa [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > Sent: Tuesday, October 15, 2002 2:45 PM > > To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' > > Subject: :: delimiting apostrophes to insert data w/o errors :: > > > > > > Hello! > > I bet there is some really simple DBI function/reg ex that > > delimits the > > apostrophes like such (\') so data can be inserted into the db without > > errors. > > > > i.e. this string: > > INSERT INTO db (SomeColumn) VALUES ('John's car is cool!') > > > > becomes: > > INSERT INTO db (SomeColumn) VALUES ('John\'s car is cool!') > > > > Anybody know the function/reg ex for this? > > Thanks for any help in advance! > > Appreciate it! > > > > - christa :) > > > > - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - > > christa hastie
