RE: escaping semicolon in strings

2001-05-10 Thread Dave Emerson
sday, May 10, 2001 5:31 PM > To: Dave Emerson > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: escaping semicolon in strings > > > On Thu, May 10, 2001 at 05:16:42PM -0400, Dave Emerson wrote: > > > I'm trying to store strings the database that contain html character > >

RE: escaping semicolon in strings

2001-05-10 Thread Dave Emerson
ODBC] > -Original Message- > From: j.urban [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Thursday, May 10, 2001 5:28 PM > To: Dave Emerson > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: escaping semicolon in strings > > > How are you inserting the strings (ie C, Perl, etc)? > What is the ex

escaping semicolon in strings

2001-05-10 Thread Dave Emerson
I'm trying to store strings the database that contain html character entities in them. It appears that the insert fails when it sees the semicolon that terminates the entity. I've tried escaping it with \ but that doesn't work. What's the proper way to escape a semicolon embedded in a string?