In the last episode (May 04), Steve Pugh said:
> Hello all, once again! Can anyone tell me why the following takes
> place? In my VB app I am adding records to the table "Jobs" with
> this code (trimmed way down - my actual INSERT statement populates
> about 20 fields):
>
> sqlstr = "INSERT INTO Jobs VALUES(" & _
> Chr(34) & txtSceneFile & Chr(34) & ")"
>
> adocn.execute sqlstr
>
> Now, let's say that my txtSceneFile contains
> "C:\Data\test\foo\bar.lws". My Jobs table will show the following
> for the applicable data field: "C: Data". This, my frields, is a new
> one to me, to be sure! Any ideas?
You need to escape all quotes, apostrophes, and backslashes, or use
bind variables and let ODBC handle the escaping for you. Consider what
happens with a filename like
C:\temp\My "filename"'s got quotes in it.doc
See http://dev.mysql.com/doc/mysql/en/String_syntax.html for more info.
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