> Hi,
>
> How do I guard against single quotes in text messing up my
SQL
> statements. For example, I have some text like:
>
> 'this is some text. It's got an apostrophe in it'
>
> ie there's inadvertantly 3 single quotes there, which ruin
the SQL
> statement. I could URL-encode the text first and URL-decode
it
> afterwards (using PHP), but is there a 'proper' way to encode
it (in
> Oracle 8)?
Hi,
The answer is: you have to put 2 adjacent single quotes
within your text. Thus:
'this is some text. It''s got an apostrophe in it'
By the way, this is written in the Oracle SQL reference.
I hope this helps.
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Received on Tue Oct 12 1999 - 06:23:28 CDT
