Yes, that works indeed. I made a silly mistake and that is that the replace took already place in the table insertion SQL! Idea is that users can make a shortcut in the SQL and not type out a long string every time. All sorted now.
RBS On Fri, Jul 27, 2018 at 10:25 AM, Hick Gunter <[email protected]> wrote: > Insert into sql_replace values ('xxx','''A'',''B'',''C'''); > > Note: All single quotes. To include a single quote in a single quoted > string, it needs to be doubled. > > Not sure what you are trying to do here. Build SQL queries on the fly? > > -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- > Von: sqlite-users [mailto:[email protected]] > Im Auftrag von Bart Smissaert > Gesendet: Freitag, 27. Juli 2018 10:38 > An: General Discussion of SQLite Database <sqlite-users@mailinglists. > sqlite.org> > Betreff: [EXTERNAL] [sqlite] How to insert this string? > > Have a table like this: > > create table sql_replace(string_old text, string_new text) > > The idea is to do automatic string replacements in SQL. > Say we have this SQL: > > select * from table1 where a in(xxx) > > then after the string replacement it should be this: > > select * from table1 where a in('A', 'B', 'C') > > Having some trouble inserting the 2 strings, xxx and 'A', 'B', 'C' > in the table. Tried various constructions, but getting errors. I can see > this will be a lot easier to do in code with place holders and bound > values, but in this case I need to do it with direct SQL in an Android > phone app. > > Any advice how to do this in direct SQL? > > RBS > _______________________________________________ > sqlite-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://mailinglists.sqlite.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sqlite-users > > > ___________________________________________ > Gunter Hick | Software Engineer | Scientific Games International GmbH | > Klitschgasse 2-4, A-1130 Vienna | FN 157284 a, HG Wien, DVR: 0430013 | (O) > +43 1 80100 - 0 > > May be privileged. May be confidential. Please delete if not the addressee. > _______________________________________________ > sqlite-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://mailinglists.sqlite.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sqlite-users > _______________________________________________ sqlite-users mailing list [email protected] http://mailinglists.sqlite.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sqlite-users

