You should *always* use parameterized statements for this sort of work. Besides sparing you the trouble of having to escape special characters, it is a good defence against SQL Injection On Mon, Sep 20, 2010 at 11:23 AM, Calvin Omari <calvinebarongo@gmail.com>wrote:
Because am doing an insert from an application is there a way I can do string repalce such that i whenever a name like Murang'a appears the ' will have to be repalced by ' ' ( two apostrophes) Thanks
On Mon, Sep 20, 2010 at 11:18 AM, Isaak Mogetutu <imogetutu@googlemail.com
wrote:
*INSERT myTable (columnName) VALUES ('This is Murang''a')*
This will insert a single quote or apostrophe into the field between the "g" and the "a".
--not tested
On 20 September 2010 11:13, Calvin Omari <calvinebarongo@gmail.com>wrote:
@Isaak Thanks so much do we have the same syntax in Microsoft sql server 2005
On Mon, Sep 20, 2010 at 11:10 AM, Isaak Mogetutu < imogetutu@googlemail.com> wrote:
*$foo = "This is Murang'a town";
$sql = "INSERT INTO mytable SET comments = '".mysql_real_escape_string($foo)."'";*
On 20 September 2010 11:03, Calvin Omari <calvinebarongo@gmail.com>wrote:
Hi Techies, How do we insert words like 'Murang'a' in mssql as it will be seen as an unclosed quote Regards
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