RE: SQL and the single quote (')

How about:

Select ....... where name like ('D_ANGELO%')

Eric DeLong
Sally Beauty Company
MIS-Project Manager (BSG)
940-898-7863 or ext. 1863



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> From: Murphy, Guy [mailto:murphy@uif.uillinois.edu]
> Sent: Tuesday, June 25, 2002 5:16 PM
> To: 'midrange-l@midrange.com'
> Subject: SQL and the single quote (')
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>       One of our programmers is trying to read a name field
> from a file
> with an SQL statement.  The name is D'Angelo.  The single quote as I
> understand it is causing the program to halt because the
> single quote is the
> string delimiter.  In the SQL reference manual it says that the string
> delimiter can be changed to double quotes in Cobol but that
> the delimiter is
> fixed in our high level languages.  We don't have Cobol. Is
> there a work
> around for this in RPG or Java?
>
>
> Guy Murphy
> murphyfa@uiuc.edu
> UDIS at the University of Illinois
> 217-333-8670
> http://www.heisercoaching.com
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