Re: Escaping \n

On Friday 28 March 2008 17:21, Sam Mason wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 28, 2008 at 05:06:10PM -0400, Terry Lee Tucker wrote:
> > HINT: Use the escape string syntax for escapes, e.g., E'\r\n'.
> >
> > The problem is a line like 'UPDATE bill SET notes = 'blah, blah,
> > yea\nmore stuff';
> >
> > How to I escape the newline embeded in the string? I've tried the advice
> > from HINT, but have been unable to get it to work.
>
> The statement would become:
>
> UPDATE bill SET notes = E'blah, blah, yea\nmore stuff';
>
> Is this what you tried? I couldn't tell from your message. If you did,
> then maybe your database drivers are somehow mangling the statement
> somewhere between your code and the database. You could try running it
> locally from inside psql to find out.
>
>
> Sam

Thanks Sam. No, that is not what I tried. I had tried:
UPDATE bill SET notes = 'blah, blah, yeaE'\n'more stuff.'
It didn't dawn on me that the E went in front of the whole string!

Thanks for the help...
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