SQLite and single quote characters
Tore Nilsen
tore.nilsen at me.com
Wed Dec 28 14:12:58 EST 2016
Thank you. It worked a charm!
Tore
> 28. des. 2016 kl. 20.04 skrev Devin Asay <devin_asay at byu.edu>:
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> Tore,
>
> I believe you have to escape single quotes in SQL data. See this stackoverflow question:
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> https://stackoverflow.com/questions/603572/how-to-properly-escape-a-single-quote-for-a-sqlite-database
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> Devin
>
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> On Dec 28, 2016, at 11:54 AM, Tore Nilsen <tore.nilsen at me.com<mailto:tore.nilsen at me.com>> wrote:
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> I am using my Christmas break to try to teach myself how to use SQLite with LiveCode. (Hopefully I will be able to teach my students how to use it also, come January.) In this process I ran into a problem, where the script I used did not insert a new record to the database as expected. Some records were created, others were not, but no errors were reported.
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> I managed to track it down to the fact that in the instances where it did not work, some of the data I wanted to register included the use of the single quote character. This resulted in no new records being inserted, but LC did not report any errors.
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> As a single quote may be a valid character in some instances where I intend to use SQLite databases, I am now at odds with how to proceed. Does anyone have a solution to this problem?
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> Regards
> Tore Nilsen
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