Problem with character ' (single quote) in text fields

From: "Jordi" <jordil2(at)hotmail(dot)com>
To: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Problem with character ' (single quote) in text fields
Date: 2002-01-21 10:42:12
Message-ID: a2gqr0$968$1@news.tht.net
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Hi,

I have an old problem using the single quote (') character in text field
because Postgresql thinks it is the "end of text" character. The '
characther is used a lot in my language. As a workaround I'm parsing the
fields duplicating the ' characters inside the text but this is a bad
solution because:

Assuming field1 and field2 are text field, as I usually use in my
programs something like :
...
sprintf (auxstr, "SELECT field WHERE field=%s AND field2=%s" , vartext1,
vartext2);
..

As vartext1 and vartext2 can contain the ' so I need to create char[size]
variables to save the output of my "duplicate ' characters" function.
Something like:

char[SIZE] vartext1;
char[SIZE] vartext2;

DuplicateSingleQuote (OriginalText1, vartext1); //vartext1 is the new
valid text to insert
DuplicateSingleQuote(OriginalText2, vartext2);
sprintf(...)

So the code is full of temporary chart[] variables.

Is there any way to change the start/end of Text field character or do you
know a better workaround to avoid parsing/changing all the text fields just
in case they contain the single quote ( ') character??.

Best regards,

Jordi

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