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?
>
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> 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
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