escaping characters

[Ruslan Zasukhin]

on 6/20/03 1:45, Tim Davis at timdavis at amug.org wrote:

>>>   In the mean time, before you get the next beta out, could you give
>>> me an idea of how to escape strings properly?
>> 
>> If you want self escape it you need write function that get string and
>> return other string., You iterate input string and you escape symbols
>> that
>> needed
>> 
>>          )(?'.+*
> 
> Ruslan,
> 
> I read in your document that RegEx is used on LIKE conditions. So do
> those characters only need to be escaped in LIKE conditions? What if
> condition is "=" or similar, what characters need escaping, or is it
> the same?

You need escape 
        )(?'.+*

For LIKE/REGEX search

And you need escape ONLY single quote for other conditions.


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