To add, whatever program your are using, ie. php, perl, etc. may have a
function to add slashes for you.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Artem Koutchine" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "Robert Heron" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Sunday, February 18, 2001 0:18
Subject: Re: special characters in MySQL query
> No, solve it in your own program.
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Robert Heron" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Saturday, February 17, 2001 6:35 PM
> Subject: special characters in MySQL query
>
>
> > I have written a program which reads data from WWW forms and passes
> it to
> > MySQL queries. All works fine except for the cases when the form is
> filled
> > with characters like '%', '"', ''', etc. Then, these characters are
> treated
> > like special, formatting characters in SQL query, which, of course
> demage
> > the SQL query. I know that this problem can be solved by adding '\'
> char
> > before each such special character, but users typing texts in the
> form by
> > WWW will not know that.
> > Is there any simple way in MySQL to solve this problem?
> >
> > Robert
> >
> >
> >
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