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David,
Try :
select replace('O'||''''||'brian','''','"') from dual;
REPLACE
Remeber - four single quotes gets you one. The above replaces O'Brian with O"Brian.
In your example:
select replace(lastname,'''',' ') from adst where lastname like 'O%' (replacing a single quote with a space???) is probably what you want.
Hope this helps
Tom Mercadante
Oracle Certified Professional
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[mailto:DBarbour_at_austin.isd.tenet.edu]
Sent: Monday, October 22, 2001 12:35 PM
To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L
Gotta love Mondays,
We've been through this before, and I usually don't have a problem, but today my brain must think it's the weekend.
Hey, I've got a bunch of names like O'Brien and O'Reilley where I need to replace the ' symbol. I've tried every type of combination of single quotes and slashes(escape sequence) I can think of, but I must have missed one, because I can't get it to replace.
Any Ideas? Here's the progenitor of the whole mess.
1* select replace(lastname,' ' ') from adst where lastname like 'O%'
SQL> /
ERROR:
ORA-01756: quoted string not properly terminated
SQL>
David A. Barbour
Oracle DBA, OCP
AISD
512-414-1002
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