From: Jeff Boes <jboes@nexcerpt.com>
To: pgsql-sql@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: escape single quote in INSERT command
Date: Fri, 22 Nov 2002 13:38:17 -0500
Message-ID: <arltil$2l7q$1@news.hub.org> (raw)
References: <27ad91d2.0211220500.19633b93@posting.google.com>
On Fri, 22 Nov 2002 08:00:01 -0500, Hunter wrote:
> I have a perl application for a registration form. I'd like to put
> escape characters in my insert command to accommodate for ' (i.e.
> O'Brien, O'Malley, etc). I've tired double quotes, single quotes, back
> tick, forward ticks, curly bracket, round brackets - no success.
Are you using the DBI interface? That's the most straightforward way to
accomplish this. Something like this:
use strict;
use DBI;
my $dbh = DBI->new(...see docs for details...);
$dbh->do(q|INSERT INTO mytable (col1) VALUES (?)|, undef,
q|O'Malley|) or die $DBI::errstr;
$dbh->commit;
By using the '?' placeholder format for statements, you can pass in any
data without having to worry about quoting.
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