I'm really sorry D. Hipps. My question was silly - I didn't realize that the function arguments are also parsed by the SQL engine and therefore they should be valid SQL strings.
I apologize for the annoyance. Iulian. -----Original Message----- From: D. Richard Hipp [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, March 28, 2005 1:47 PM To: sqlite-users@sqlite.org Subject: RE: [sqlite] quote() function On Mon, 2005-03-28 at 13:27 -0500, Iulian Popescu wrote: > Is it something wrong with doing a: > > SELECT quote('AA'AA') > Yes, it is a syntax error. The ' character within a string in SQL is doubled to quote it - like in Pascal. That's the rules of SQL - I did not make this stuff up. The following works: SELECT quote('AA''AA'); Compare the output against this: SELECT 'AA''AA'; -- D. Richard Hipp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
