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Re: Use of the quote / apostrophe in text fields

From: Daniel Fink <Daniel.Fink_at_Sun.COM>
Date: Mon, 15 Mar 2004 11:07:36 -0700
Message-id: <4055F0E8.64AFD158@sun.com>


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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