Re: addslashes/stripslashes

thanks guys, got it working now. Removed Addslashes and it works fine. 1lt John W. Holmes wrote: >> I am trying to develop a search for my database. >> >> I used addslashes when entering the data, and then use addslashes with >> the search but nothing comes up: >> >> Select * from tblContacts, tblCountries WHERE >> (tblContacts.CountryCode=tblCountries.CountryID) AND (Organization LIKE >> '%o\'mallies%' ) >> >> I check in the database and o'mallies is indeed there as o\'mallies. And > a >> search for just mallies works fine. > > If you see it in the database as o\'mallies, then you are running > addslashes() twice on the data you are inserting. If you insert o\'mallies > into the database, the \ is only there to tell the database that the > following character is escaped. In this case, the ' is not the end of the > string, but something that should be included in the data that's put into > the database. The actual \ isn't put in the database. > > So, with that said, you can fix your code and find out where you are > addslashes() twice. You can run some queries to replace \' in your > database with ', too. > > Or you can just search for o\\\'mallies in your database, which will > search for a literal \ and a literal ' in the data. > > ---John Holmes...