Re: how do I put a & in a varchar2?

I didn't know that there were so many ways to overcome this problem but the one I use is

SET ESCAPE ON This sets an escape character on which by default is '/' just preceed '&' with '/' and you should be fine.

This is what the manual says about this

**************SET ESCAPE*****************

Defines an escape character you can use before the substitution character. The escape character instructs SQL*Plus to treat the substitution character as an ordinary character rather than as a request for variable substitution. The default escape character is a backslash (\).

On Wed, 17 Sep 1997 18:24:55 -0400, David Kramer <Dskramer_at_concentric.net> wrote:

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>This sounds stupid, but I can't find this in three different Oracle books.
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>If I use a & in my insert, it thinks I'm defining a variable. In fact,
>I'm inserting a URL into a field in my database. How do I escape it?
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>TIA.
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Received on Tue Sep 23 1997 - 00:00:00 CDT