You have to excape them. ie.
String str = "\"blah\", \"blah\"";
--- Margaret Fisk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> I've got a basic question about quotation marks that
> I can't figure out.
>
> I'm trying to pass an array as a string argument to
> an SQL query.
>
> I have an array that identifies a user and their
> associated area, both by
> Strings as the identifier.
>
> I need to end up with a String that contains all the
> associated areas in
> double quotes, separated by commas.
>
> i.e.
>
> Array
> 0 1
> User1 homework
> User2 Gym
> User3 Math
> User1 Science
> User2 English
> User1 Chess Club
>
> Using a for loop, I collect all the array[1] values
> associated with User1
> and put them into a string
>
> areas=areas+',"'array[i][1];
>
> What I need is "homework","Science","Chess Club" to
> be used in an in
> statement for the sql query.
>
> I tried to use single quotes to prompt Java to
> ignore the double quote
> character (it works in Perl) but it still gives me
> compilation errors.
>
> Does someone have an approach that works?
>
> Thanks,
> Margaret
>
>
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