On Tue, 09 Dec 2003 13:24:03 -0500, Michael Stassen
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>
>You don't want to filter the quotes from the input string, because they 
>exist in the data.  (Well, you could filter from both sides, but that's 
>inefficient.)  What you need to do is escape the quotes with backslashes 
>before sending them to mysql.  Then your query will look like this:
>

Michael, thanks for answering

I've solved some of my quote problems (which were just down to
mistakes).(BTW LIKE does NOT ignore quotes)

How would you filter say non-alphanumerics from the input string? What
is the syntax? I've previously wanted to do a regexp on the input
string but this not seem to be permitted
zzapper
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