Gerald Clark wrote:
> in perl you would do
> my $qselcat=$dbh->quote($selcat);
> $whichpart = "AND key1=$qselcat";
>
> Ren� Fournier wrote:
>
> > Hello everyone,
> >
> > I'm trying to Select on a field that contains a doublequote, and can't
> > figure out how to pass it throught the Select statement (couldn't find
> > anything in the docs either...)
> >
> > -=-=-=-=-
> >
> > This doesn't work...
> >
> > $whichpart = "AND key1='$selcat'";
> > $result = mysql_query("SELECT * FROM parts WHERE status='online'
> > $whichpart",$db);
> >
> > ...when $selcat contains a double quote. For example, if I echo
> > $selcat, I get:
> >
> > AND key1='36\" Core Shafts'
> >
> > ======
> > I can see that mysql is choking on that double quote--do I need to
> > convert it to something else? Thanks.
> >
> > ...Rene
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FYI -
Be careful using dbh->quote with inserts and updates. If you feed dbh->quote a
variable that has
no value, it will return '' (tick tick). If the column is a date the value will
be set to 0000-00-00 and
if the column is numeric it will be set to 0 instead of NULL . You can either
check the length of the variable to see if you
can quote it, or use a sub_routine like below and call it instead of dbh->quote.
walt
#############################################################
# # nea_quote
# replacement for direct dbh->quote which doesn't work well with
# mysql which returns '' instead of NULL.
sub nea_quote
{
my ($input) = @_;
if (length($input) == 0)
{
$return_string = "NULL";
return $return_string;
}
else
{
$return_string = $dbh->quote($input);
return $return_string;
}
}
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