RE: Use of the quote / apostrophe in text fields

  • From: "Niall Litchfield" <n-litchfield@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Tue, 16 Mar 2004 11:34:30 +0000

That's what smart editors with colour coding are for. 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Daniel.Fink@xxxxxxx 
> Sent: 15 March 2004 18:07
> To: Daniel.Fink@xxxxxxx; oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: Use of the quote / apostrophe in text fields
> 
> 
> I like the CHR() function because my tiny little brain can 
> never remember how
> many '
> I need to display ' (is it 2,3,4 or 42????)
> 
> There is also an ASCII() function to return the ascii number 
> of a character
> (sorry
> IBMers, there is not an EBCIDIC() function...)
> 
> ;)
> 
> 
> Mladen Gogala wrote:
> 
> > Or, using the double trouble quotes:
> > insert into t1 values('A''MHOINE PSAMMITE');
> >
> 
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