Re: disappearance of "." from table column

ginafromguam_at_hotmail.com wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> I'm puzzled by the disappearance of the "." character from my image
> source. What I am doing is inserting in the <img src="pic.gif"> in
one
> of the columns called html_content in my email_outbox table and
another
> application will send out an email with the content coming from this
> html_content.
>
> When I receive the email, however, I cannot see the gif image. I've
> noticed that in my html source code, the image source has changed
into
> <img src = "picgif">. I have no clue as to why my dot all of sudden
> disappeared.
> Any ideas as to why this is happening will be greatly appreciated.

Is the '.' present in the data in your email_outbox table? That would be the first place I'd look. Then I'd check the application extracting this data and see what it's doing with your '.'.

Oracle uses '.' as a concatenation charcter for file names/extensions, so a single '.' can be interpreted as such and 'disappears'. The 'fix' for that is to double the '.'.

I'd check your source data, then decide where to go. David Fitzjarrell Received on Wed Dec 22 2004 - 16:45:04 CST