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Re: Use of the quote / apostrophe in text fields

From: <sfaroult_at_oriole.com>
Date: Mon, 15 Mar 2004 05:28:54 -0500 (EST)
Message-Id: <20040315102312.89FC2390626@turing.freelists.org>


I know of no other means than a systematical and ugly REPLACE (COL, '''', ''''''). SF

> Many of our data fields require use of a quote embedded within the text
> field, most particularly for proper names (eg 'A'MHOINE PSAMMITE', just to
> give you a taste of Scottish geological terminology!)
>
> This can prove troublesome where autogenerated update scripts are used, in
> which the value of the field is retrieved back into a quote-delimited
> string.
>
> Is anyone aware of a means of redefining the field delimiter from a quote to
> some other arbitrary character in SQL?
>
> thanks,
>
> peter
> edinburgh
>
>


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