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 backsla

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 nam

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)) When I perform the WHERE LHS-Containing-Quote LIKE RHS-without-quotes The LIKE appears to ignore the quotes (which is what I want) BUT IS THAT A FEATURE OF LIKE??? zz

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 f

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 won