Thanks Filip, that clarified and solved it.
Chris
On Thu, 8 May 2008, Filip Navara wrote:
> You don't want to use double quotes for strings actually, they can
> refer to column names. The correct way is to use single quotes (') and
> escape the quotes in actual text by using two single quotes ('').
>
> F.
>
> On Thu, May 8, 2008 at 12:47 PM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> I am converting text data from another database into SQLite. Some text
>> data has embedded apostrophes like this:
>>
>> This was George's big day
>>
>> Other data has embedded double quotes like this:
>>
>> The box is 3" wide
>>
>> I am generating INSERT INTO statements for thousands of records to be used
>> in a Windows script to move the data into SQLite. I am needing to use
>> different statement (with different delmiters) for each of the above
>> 2 scenarios:
>>
>> INSERT INTO tbl VALUES("This was George's big day");
>> INSERT INTO tbl VALUES('The box is 3" wide');
>>
>> Double-quotes wrap the apostrophe in #1, apostrophes wrap the double-quote
>> in #2. But this means I need to parse the data content for every field in
>> order to generate the INSERTs. Is there a single set of delimiters that
>> would handle both scenarios without having to parse the data first?
>>
>> Chris
>>
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