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From: Jason Stajich <jason at chg dot mc dot duke dot edu>
Subject: Re: single quotes and perl
Date: Jan 12 2001 5:25PM
my $quotedfield = $dbh->quote($field);
On Fri, 12 Jan 2001, Tanja Davidson wrote:
> I've got a newbie perl programmer question.
>
> I've been using sybase::Ctlib to do my database connections and all has
> gone fine until I realized that there's a problem with single quotes if
> they exist in the text fields of my web forms.
>
> Can anyone give me a work around for inserting and searching on text
> variables which may have embedded single quotes?
>
> The docs I've found so far have said to $var=~s/'/''/g but that ends up
> inserting two single quotes into my database which is unacceptable.
>
> This should be a fairly simple question for any guru who has done much
> perl programming with sybase databases and the web.
>
> Thanks in advance!
>
>
Jason Stajich
jason@chg.mc.duke.edu
Center for Human Genetics
Duke University Medical Center
http://www.chg.duke.edu/
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