Re: escaping character in sql statements

Mark,

My experience is mainly Oracle but it may help.   I would expect you to 
have to include the ' in quotes i.e. '''.

If I read your statement correctly I would expect something like the 
following to work.

select * from files where location = '\\\\\\\\192.168.0.100\\\\clients\\\\o'''orielly\\\\file%'

It gets more interesting if you want to find two quotes ('').  You will have to experiment.

Good luck   Bob



Mark Mchugh wrote:

>Hi,
>I am writing an sql to retrieve data relating to certain files in a folder from my database. Some times part of the data may contain a ' character.
>
>here's an example of the sql
>
>select * from files where location = '\\\\\\\\192.168.0.100\\\\clients\\\\o''orielly\\\\file%'
>
>
>this recults returns no records from my database, even though there are records there. the records are path + file names, thats why i have to use the \ charater to escape them, this does not seem to like me using ' to escape the ' character, any ideas?
>
>
>
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