Re: [GENERAL] Problem with apostrophe

the escape character brings up the help menu, thinking that \' is not a
valid option.

On Wed, 17 Jun 1998, Brett W. McCoy wrote:

> On Wed, 17 Jun 1998, Amos Hayes wrote:
>
> > > Is there any way of having an apostrophe in a data field?
> > > It is a problem because the apostrophe is the same character as the single
> > > quote, so the database gets a parser error when a name such as "O'Brian"
> > > is entered.
> >
> > Have you tried doubling up?   'O''Brian'
> >
> > That is what I have to do in Oracle anyway.
>
> Isn't there an escape character, like the slash?
>
> Brett W. McCoy
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