On Friday 04 August 2006 12:17 pm, Fargo Holiday wrote: > > Or option 3 > > > > 3) Save yourself the trouble and don't allow users to create tables > > that include illegal characters. > > A map of "user name" to "real name" will make constructing queries > > immensely painful as you will have to replace the user name with the > > real name all the time and any mistakes will ruin the results. > > I was going to suggest the very thing. I'm working on a little DB > application myself and I just used a combination of editfield masks and > keydown events to check against a list of bad characters. If it finds > one I have the keydown beep and return true. > _______________________________________________ Hi Fargo, That would work if the user were choosing his own names, but as I mentioned to Norman, they're coming from a folder of text files.
Thanks for your comments, though Don _______________________________________________ Unsubscribe or switch delivery mode: <http://www.realsoftware.com/support/listmanager/> Search the archives of this list here: <http://support.realsoftware.com/listarchives/lists.html>
