RE: [PHP-WIN] Converting apostrophes for insertion into Oracle

From: Date: Mon, 05 Feb 2001 21:20:51 +0000
Subject: RE: [PHP-WIN] Converting apostrophes for insertion into Oracle
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Hi Pablo To answer your question, yes... It doesn't seem to like that because the field can be empty... for some reason Oracle won't allow you to have an empty field enclosed by two "'s... ORA-01741: illegal zero-length identifier John > John: > > When you say that your SQL statement has apostrophes, you mean single > quotes enclosing a string value ?, if this is the case, why not try > changing the single quotes in your SQL for double quotes. > > Saludos, > Pablo > _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ > > Monday, February 05, 2001, 3:03:21 PM, John wrote: > > AJ> I've got a web form that might have someone entering apostrophes. > AJ> Unfortunately, my SQL statement has apostrophes in it and > it seems to be > AJ> messing it up... > > AJ> Any suggestions other than a regex (which I could do myself)? > > AJ> John > > AJ> --------------------- > AJ> John Asendorf - jasendorf@lcounty.com > AJ> Web Applications Developer > AJ> http://www.lcounty.com - NEW FEATURES ADDED DAILY! > AJ> Licking County, Ohio, USA > AJ> 740-349-3631 > > AJ> The benefit to the government of replacing all $1 Federal > Reserve notes with > AJ> $1 coins would be $522.2 million per year, according to > estimates of the > AJ> General Accouting Office released on April 7, 2000. > > > > -- > PHP Windows Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, e-mail: php-windows-unsubscribe@lists.php.net > For additional commands, e-mail: php-windows-help@lists.php.net > To contact the list administrators, e-mail: > php-list-admin@lists.php.net >

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