Databases Revolution facility to compensate for ("") and ('') diferences?

Trevor DeVore lists at mangomultimedia.com
Tue Mar 16 10:56:13 EST 2004


On Mar 16, 2004, at 1:42 AM, Kevin wrote:

> I am wondering if there is a method to handle the ("")/('') diferences 
>  in Revolution database access.  In Perl there is a construct which 
> will wrap data in the apropreiate delimiter based on the driver being 
> utilized.  Is there a similar construct or is it done by someother 
> method?

I don't know of anything similar to Perl but it is pretty easy to write 
your own.  For Valentina database strings I use something like this:

function libDB_Escape pString
     replace "'" with "\'" in pString
     return "'" & pString & "'"
end libDB_Escape

-- 
Trevor DeVore
Blue Mango Multimedia
trevor at mangomultimedia.com



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