Re: Comparing strings containing possible quotes

2003-12-09 Thread zzapper
On Mon, 08 Dec 2003 19:07:43 +, zzapper [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Ya, I have a typical select as follows SELECT * FROM ytbl_development AS t1 WHERE (t1.txtDevName LIKE '%#form.searchtext#%') B) Now I can filter any quotes from form.searchtext easy enough, but how do I filter

Re: Comparing strings containing possible quotes

2003-12-09 Thread zzapper
Hi Ya. I seem to have solved my problem if I clean out any punctuation from my search string (see below (ColdFusion script)) cfset form.searchtext=replace(form.searchtext,'[[:punct:]]','','all') When I perform the WHERE LHS-Containing-Quote LIKE RHS-without-quotes The LIKE appears to ignore

Re: Comparing strings containing possible quotes

2003-12-09 Thread Michael Stassen
Three messages quoted, with my responses interspersed: zzapper wrote: [8 Dec 2003 19:07:49 -] Hi Ya, I have a typical select as follows SELECT * FROM ytbl_development AS t1 WHERE (t1.txtDevName LIKE '%#form.searchtext#%') However users a complaining that if they search for for a

Re: Comparing strings containing possible quotes

2003-12-09 Thread zzapper
On Tue, 09 Dec 2003 13:24:03 -0500, Michael Stassen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You don't want to filter the quotes from the input string, because they exist in the data. (Well, you could filter from both sides, but that's inefficient.) What you need to do is escape the quotes with backslashes

Comparing strings containing possible quotes

2003-12-08 Thread zzapper
Hi Ya, I have a typical select as follows SELECT * FROM ytbl_development AS t1 WHERE (t1.txtDevName LIKE '%#form.searchtext#%') However users a complaining that if they search for for a name that contains a quote eg a development named King's Reach it is not found. A) Now it simply