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Myriam

I think you'll have to process the substrings to insert backslashes where
needed.

Regards

Pete

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Peter Hearty                         peter.hearty@lutris.com
Lutris Technologies (UK)        http://www.lutris.com
----- Original Message -----
From: "Myriam Abramson" <abramson@nlm.nih.gov>
To: <instantDB@enhydra.org>
Sent: Tuesday, November 07, 2000 6:07 PM
Subject: InstantDB: single quote, double quotes frustration


>
> Hi!
>
> I'm struggling with my insert statement and I'm getting frustrated:
>
>   String debugstmnt = "INSERT INTO lextable VALUES " +
> "(" + eui + ",now,\'" + base + "\'," + "\'" + lexRec + "\')";
>
> where base and lexRec might contain single quotes and double quotes as
> well. What's the best way to handle that? I'm getting an error if I
> delimit with one or the other:
>
> Enhydra InstantDB - Version 3.20 beta 1
> The Initial Developer of the Original Code is Lutris Technologies Inc.
> Portions created by Lutris are Copyright (C) 1997-2000 Lutris
Technologies, Inc.
> All Rights Reserved.
> .java.sql.SQLException: INSERT INTO lextable VALUES (EXXX9998,now,'sarah's
cat','{base=sarah's cat
> entry=EXXX9998
> cat=noun
> variants=reg
> }')
>  Don't understand SQL after: "INSERT"
>  Expected: "}" found: "s"
> at org.enhydra.instantdb.db.SQLProg.execute(SQLProg.java:215)
> at org.enhydra.instantdb.jdbc.idbStatement.execute(idbStatement.java:235)
> at db.LexTable.tableInsert(LexTable.java:117)
> at db.LexTable.main(LexTable.java:71)
> INSERT INTO lextable VALUES (EXXX9998,now,'sarah's cat','{base=sarah's cat
> entry=EXXX9998
> cat=noun
> variants=reg
> }')
>
> or
>
> java.sql.SQLException: INSERT INTO lextable VALUES
(EXXX9997,now,""cotton-roll" gingivitis","{base="cotton-roll" gingivitis
> entry=EXXX9997
> cat=noun
> variants=glreg
> variants=uncount
> }")
>  Don't understand SQL after: "INSERT"
>  Expected: "}" found: "cotton"
> at org.enhydra.instantdb.db.SQLProg.execute(SQLProg.java:215)
> at org.enhydra.instantdb.jdbc.idbStatement.execute(idbStatement.java:235)
> at db.LexTable.tableInsert(LexTable.java:117)
> at db.LexTable.main(LexTable.java:71)
> INSERT INTO lextable VALUES (EXXX9997,now,""cotton-roll"
gingivitis","{base="cotton-roll" gingivitis
> entry=EXXX9997
> cat=noun
> variants=glreg
> variants=uncount
> }")
>
> Thanks,
>
>
> --
>                                           myriam
>
> Go Proverb:
>
> There are times when even a fight over nothing means something.
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