How would you do:
set field='Jim said, "that's crazy."'
you would have to escape the quote somehow. The '\' is the escaper
character.
set field='Jim said, "that\'s crazy."'
That means hat the escape character must also be escaped.
Check the manual for the section on special characters.
Most languages that support MySQL also have a function that can [
should] be used
to escape all strings before they are inserted or matched in a query.
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>Hi everybody,
> This seems to be a definite defect in MySql. While inserting a String into
>a MySql attribute defined as VARCHAR or VARCHAR BINARY, etc., if a '\' is
>present in the String, it is simply disregarded, and the remaining part of the
>String gets inserted. For inserting a '\', we have to use '\\'. However, the
>question remains that why should I give a special treatment to a String
>containing '\' ? Normally I am not bothered by the values I insert, as long as
>it is a String. I think I should be able to insert any String, irrespective of
>its value, into an attribute specified as VARCHAR, without any special
>treatment.
> What do you say about this, and is there any justification for this kind of
>behaviour ?
> Thanks and regards,
> Jit Roy Chowdhury
> Hughes Software Systems
> Gurgaon,
> India
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