Received: from cncware.whidbey.com (IDENT:root@cncware.whidbey.com [208.25.171.37]) by hub.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id QAA31781 for ; Fri, 7 May 1999 16:18:41 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from ken@ori-ind.com) Received: from ken (ken.cncware.com [192.168.61.201]) by cncware.whidbey.com (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id NAA01344; Fri, 7 May 1999 13:17:23 -0700 Message-Id: <3.0.32.19990507132105.008d9a40@ren.cncware.com> X-Sender: ken_ori@ren.cncware.com X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Pro Version 3.0 (32) Date: Fri, 07 May 1999 13:21:07 -0700 To: Henk Jan Barendregt From: "Ken J. Wright" Subject: Re: [INTERFACES] How to store ' Cc: pgsql-interfaces@postgreSQL.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" You have to preceed each occurence of ' with a \. So "test'string" becomes "test\'string". Cheers! Ken At 08:02 PM 5/7/99 +0000, you wrote: > >Hello, > >Is there a way to store a string with the ' character in it ? >I have to import a database with a lot of strings containing the ' >character. >If it is not possible i should write a script to replace them with a ` >char. > >Thanks in advance, > >Henk Jan >