RE: string help!

2005-04-01 Thread amonotod
From: Michael Peppler [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 2005/03/31 Thu PM 11:29:58 CST Placeholders in Sybase are well supported, with the notable exceptions that you can't use them for TEXT or IMAGE (i.e. BLOB) columns/parameters. Yep, I use placeholders to insert the row, minus the TEXT column,

string help!

2005-03-31 Thread Ron Stephan
Help -- I am lost trying figure out what occurs to me a really simple problem. CGI-Perl-MySQL. Users pounding data into a CGI-Perl web page feeding MySQL. If the user enters a special character it crashes. As in Bob's Market... Yeah - trap for special chars and escape them. This seems so

RE: string help!

2005-03-31 Thread Ronald J Kimball
Ron Stephan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am lost trying figure out what occurs to me a really simple problem. CGI-Perl-MySQL. Users pounding data into a CGI-Perl web page feeding MySQL. If the user enters a special character it crashes. As in Bob's Market... Yeah - trap

Re: string help!

2005-03-31 Thread Hardy Merrill
Use placeholders - all your quoting issues will go away. Read about them by doing perldoc DBI at a command prompt and searching for Placeholders. HTH. Hardy Merrill Ron Stephan [EMAIL PROTECTED] 3/31/2005 1:52 PM Help -- I am lost trying figure out what occurs to me a really simple

RE: string help!

2005-03-31 Thread Hardy Merrill
Just in case it's not clear to you, the placeholders are the question marks in the VALUES part of the sql ;-) Ronald J Kimball [EMAIL PROTECTED] 3/31/2005 2:36 PM Ron Stephan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Placeholders? Like how? Here's a quick example: my $sth =

RE: string help!

2005-03-31 Thread Anderson, James H \(Company IT\)
Probably not the optimum solution if you're using Sybase... -Original Message- From: Hardy Merrill [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, March 31, 2005 2:11 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; dbi-users@perl.org Subject: Re: string help! Use placeholders - all your quoting issues will go

RE: string help!

2005-03-31 Thread Hardy Merrill
Message- From: Hardy Merrill [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, March 31, 2005 2:11 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; dbi-users@perl.org Subject: Re: string help! Use placeholders - all your quoting issues will go away. Read about them by doing perldoc DBI at a command prompt and searching

RE: string help!

2005-03-31 Thread Anderson, James H \(Company IT\)
Merrill [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, March 31, 2005 2:56 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Anderson, James H (Company IT); dbi-users@perl.org Subject: RE: string help! Really! Why not? I don't have any experience with Sybase but I haven't that comment about any other databases that *shouldn't

RE: string help!

2005-03-31 Thread amonotod
From: Anderson, James H \(Company IT\) [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 2005/03/31 Thu PM 01:59:26 CST Consequently, AFAIK, almost no one in the sybase world use them. How sad... I already figured out that I'm a nobody, but now I'm no one at all... *sigh*... amonotod -- `\|||/

RE: string help!

2005-03-31 Thread Michael Peppler
On Thu, 2005-03-31 at 21:59, Anderson, James H (Company IT) wrote: I don't remember the details, but I think they're documented in DBD::Sybase. It believe it has something to do with the way sybase supports (cobbles up may be more appropriate) placeholders. Consequently, AFAIK, almost no one