On Tue, Sep 16, 2008 at 3:43 PM, David Dooling
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> Would the above work if you put \t in double quotes, "\t"?

Nope.  a_1 becomes a\t1

> Would it work if you actually put a tab character (C-v C-i in most shells)
> inbetween double quotes for the third argument to replace()?

That worked.  Needed the double quotes, which I didn't have when I
tried that before.

Discovered that this also worked in bash, although the quoting is ugly:

$ sqlite3 foobar.db  'select replace(id,"_","'$'\t''") from bar;'

Thanks, David.

Regards,
- Robert

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