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  3. June 2002

Re: SQL and the single quote (')

Bite the bullet and double up the apostrophe - do some kind of SCAN on it
and insert an apostrophe wherever found

At 05:15 PM 6/25/02 -0500, you wrote:
>         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

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