do you believe that replacement of one char in a string with two chars costs more than encoding the string?
David. btw, I believe that prepared statements may solve that issue the best way, that's in case you do not use JdbcOdbcBridge, from my experience I studied that it doesn't update varchar fields properly, make sure it won't happen to you. Good luck! :o) ----- Original Message ----- From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, October 22, 2001 11:33 AM Subject: RE: Handling apostrophes > Sounds like a bigger overhead than encode > > Dave > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: David Treves [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: 22 October 2001 10:09 > To: tomcat-user > Subject: Re: Handling apostrophes > > > Hi there, > > you should simply duplicate in every input string the apostrophe. > > Meaning that if the input string is: > > eee'eee > > after manipulating it - BEFORE inserting it to the DB it will be: > > eee''eee ( ' twice, NOT A double quote) > > in the DB it will appear as SINGLE apostrophe. > > > That will work! :o) > David. > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Monday, October 22, 2001 10:55 AM > Subject: Handling apostrophes > > > > Hi all, > > > > I'm developing an application which uses java servlets and JSPs and > > a MySQL database running on Tomcat 4.0. > > > > I take user input, store it on the db, then display it again. As > > soon as someone tried inputiing an apostrophe, it all fell over. It seems > > that I have to encode and decode every single text field. Is this correct, > > or is there a better way ? > > > > Thanks > > > > Dave > > > >
