RE: Replacing the pesky '

From: Bellows, Bambi <BBellows_at_usg.com>
Date: Mon, 22 Oct 2001 09:36:28 -0700
Message-ID: <F001.003B1729.20011022093022@fatcity.com>

When you need to do single quotes in Oracle, the best way to do it is that the number of quotes required is twice the number of quotes you want plus two (2x+2).

So,

SQL> select '''' from dual;

'
-

'

SQL> select '''''' from dual;

''
--

''

SQL> select '''''''''' from dual;

''''

HTH,
Bambi.

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Sent: Monday, October 22, 2001 11:35 AM
To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L

Gotta love Mondays,

We've been through this before, and I usually don't have a problem, but today my brain must think it's the weekend.

Hey, I've got a bunch of names like O'Brien and O'Reilley where I need to replace the ' symbol. I've tried every type of combination of single quotes and slashes(escape sequence) I can think of, but I must have missed one, because I can't get it to replace.

Any Ideas? Here's the progenitor of the whole mess.

1* select replace(lastname,' ' ') from adst where lastname like 'O%' SQL> /
ERROR:
ORA-01756: quoted string not properly terminated SQL> David A. Barbour
Oracle DBA, OCP
AISD
512-414-1002

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