Re: Escaping strings?

You need to escape \ and ' but using setString() is the most portable
way of doing it. Escape them both with \. Something like this...

StringBuffer sbuf = new StringBuffer();
for(i = 0; i < str.length(); i++)
{
char c = str.charAt(i);
if(c == '\\' || c == '\'')
sbuf.append((char)'\\');
sbuf.append(c);
}

Cheers,

Tom.

On Mon, 2002-11-04 at 11:35, Timothy Reaves wrote:
> Unfortunatly I can not do that, as the entire sql string is dynamically
> generated. Is there no parseString() or escapeString() method? If not,
> what charachers need escaping?
>
> Thanks!
>
> On 04 Nov 2002 11:14:00 +0900
> "Thomas O'Dowd" <tom(at)nooper(dot)com> wrote:
>
> > Use the setString() method of PreparedStatement and it will escape
> > things for you.
> >
> > Tom.
> >
> > On Mon, 2002-11-04 at 11:06, Timothy Reaves wrote:
> > > What is the proper way to insure a text string (i.e. one read from
> > > a
> > > JTextField.getText()) is propery escaped? I assumed the JDBC driver
> > > would do this automatically, but it does not. An ' character will
> > > cause the JDBC driver to throw an exception.
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