From: Bruno Wolff III <bruno@wolff.to>
To: Louise Cofield <lcofield@box-works.com>
Cc: pgsql-interfaces@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: How to insert a string with single quotes in the text
Date: Sat, 20 Sep 2003 12:38:47 -0500
Message-ID: <20030920173847.GA17807@wolff.to> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <030701c37ef1$493739c0$7801a8c0@Louise>
References: <030701c37ef1$493739c0$7801a8c0@Louise>
On Fri, Sep 19, 2003 at 15:02:07 -0600,
Louise Cofield <lcofield@box-works.com> wrote:
>
> I am creating a Libpq program that reads a text file, and inserts values
> into a Postgres table. An example of my insert statement looks like
> this:
>
> SPRINTF(str, "INSERT INTO itm_table (itm_num, itm_desc) values ('%s',
> '%s');", sitmnum, sitmdesc);
>
> Other than stripping the offending quote-marks from the text prior to
> processing, does anybody have any ideas how I can deal with this?
Scan the input and put backslashes in front of backslashes and single quotes.
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