Re: [INTERFACES] RE: your mail (Should have been problems with ')

On Mon, 23 Nov 1998, Ken Wills wrote:

> Firstly, thanks to everone who replied so fast!!
>
> > I have an annoying problem, that I just haven't been able to get around yet. When I parse the
> > input from a form and go to insert it eveything works fine as long as the user doesn't use
> > the ' character in the input. I've tried using qw{} and qq{}, which either don't interpolate
> >> or give me errors. Anyone have any suggestions? Postgres 6.4, Apache 1.3, mod_perl 1.16.
> >> The insert statement is below.
>
> >escape your imput strings first...something like:
>
> a number of people suggested something like:
>
> >$phone_number =~ s/'/\\'/g;
>
> Ok, I tried this - it does what it looks like is supposed to. If I enter:
> John's shoes, I get John\'s shoes. Unfortunatly I still get an error. If i enter it
> as John's shoes' ,I dont get an error. Seems like it only likes them in pairs. The funny thing is if
> I supply them in pairs, it inserts the whole string, I'd have thought that it would parse them
> or something, and only insert the values between the '.

Have you tried doing:

    print STDERR ${inputstr}, "\n";

To see what your 'insert into...' string looks like exactly?  It looks
like you are missing a ' in there somewhere when you are generating yoru
string...

Marc G. Fournier
Systems Administrator @ hub.org
primary: scrappy@hub.org           secondary: scrappy@{freebsd|postgresql}.org