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Re: function for preserving special characters?

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In article <4s7xh8hg1pcy.ov70m21znbte$.dlg@40tude.net>, richard
<noreply@example.com> wrote:

> When attempting to transfer records from one table to another, certain
> records refuse to be.
> Such as those with words like "I'm".
> What's even more confusing is, "It's" won't work, but "Cathy's" is ok?
> 
> I know there is a procedure in PHP for dealing with this.
> I just can't find it right now.
> Can anyone help on this?

You need to read up on your database and find how it deals with things
like single-quotes (') in strings that you want to update a column
with. Or rather, how it expects *you* to present the data.

For SQLite, I do this:

     $x   = str_replace ('\'', '\'\'', $xx);

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function for preserving special characters? richard <noreply@example.com> - 2014-06-13 00:57 -0400
  Re: function for preserving special characters? Tim Streater <timstreater@greenbee.net> - 2014-06-13 10:03 +0100
    Re: function for preserving special characters? Christoph Michael Becker <cmbecker69@arcor.de> - 2014-06-13 15:32 +0200
      Re: function for preserving special characters? Tim Streater <timstreater@greenbee.net> - 2014-06-13 14:42 +0100
        Re: function for preserving special characters? Christoph Michael Becker <cmbecker69@arcor.de> - 2014-06-13 16:26 +0200
          Re: function for preserving special characters? Tim Streater <timstreater@greenbee.net> - 2014-06-13 18:23 +0100
  Re: function for preserving special characters? Doug Miller <doug_at_milmac_dot_com@example.com> - 2014-06-13 10:39 +0000
    Re: function for preserving special characters? Paul Herber <paul@pherber.com> - 2014-06-13 12:37 +0100
      Re: function for preserving special characters? Doug Miller <doug_at_milmac_dot_com@example.com> - 2014-06-13 12:59 +0000
      Re: function for preserving special characters? richard <noreply@example.com> - 2014-06-13 14:45 -0400
  solved  (was: function for preserving special characters?) richard <noreply@example.com> - 2014-06-13 09:57 -0400
    Re: solved Jerry Stuckle <jstucklex@attglobal.net> - 2014-06-13 10:14 -0400
      Re: solved richard <noreply@example.com> - 2014-06-13 14:43 -0400
        Re: solved Jerry Stuckle <jstucklex@attglobal.net> - 2014-06-13 15:01 -0400
          Re: solved richard <noreply@example.com> - 2014-06-13 15:44 -0400
            Re: solved Jerry Stuckle <jstucklex@attglobal.net> - 2014-06-13 16:09 -0400
            Re: solved Tim Streater <timstreater@greenbee.net> - 2014-06-13 21:16 +0100
              Re: solved Jerry Stuckle <jstucklex@attglobal.net> - 2014-06-13 16:38 -0400
                Re: solved richard <noreply@example.com> - 2014-06-13 18:29 -0400
                Re: solved Jerry Stuckle <jstucklex@attglobal.net> - 2014-06-13 19:43 -0400
                Re: solved richard <noreply@example.com> - 2014-06-13 20:48 -0400
                Re: solved Jerry Stuckle <jstucklex@attglobal.net> - 2014-06-13 21:39 -0400
                Re: solved Evan Platt <evan@theobvious.espphotography.com.invalid> - 2014-06-13 21:20 -0700
                Re: solved Denis McMahon <denismfmcmahon@gmail.com> - 2014-06-14 19:50 +0000
              Re: solved richard <noreply@example.com> - 2014-06-13 18:23 -0400
                Re: solved Denis McMahon <denismfmcmahon@gmail.com> - 2014-06-14 20:01 +0000
            Re: solved Denis McMahon <denismfmcmahon@gmail.com> - 2014-06-13 20:50 +0000
  Re: function for preserving special characters? Richard Damon <Richard@Damon-Family.org> - 2014-06-13 20:45 -0400
    Re: function for preserving special characters? Jerry Stuckle <jstucklex@attglobal.net> - 2014-06-13 20:51 -0400
      Re: function for preserving special characters? Richard Damon <Richard@Damon-Family.org> - 2014-06-13 22:08 -0400

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