Apostrophe and UPDATE

Dr. Hawkins dochawk at gmail.com
Wed Oct 9 10:02:59 EDT 2013


On Tue, Oct 8, 2013 at 11:37 PM, Paul Foraker <paul at whitefeather.com> wrote:

> '(last_name,notes) VALUES ("O\'Byrne", "betting this won\'t work!") WHERE
> id=599' at line 1
>

You're using the wrong escape.

Inside a string, you need a double single quote, not a backslash.

It's worth keeping a preSql() function around, like:

function preSQL pSQL
    replace "'" with "''" in pSQL
   if pSQL is empty then
      return "NULL"
   else
      return "'" & pSQL & "'"
   end if
end preSQL


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