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Andycal
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Post by Andycal »

Righty ho, nearly there!

I'm currently writing an application that takes some files and creates an SQL file that I can use to get the data into a database.

So far, all's going well and thanks to the guys here for the help - couldn't have done it without either RunRev or your help!

Anyway, at the final fence now and I'm outputting to a file, thing is, some of my text files have apostrophes and quotes in them, so when the sql file is written, it breaks when running it.

I'm using MySQL so it requires a backslash in front of any quotes in order to escape them and I was wondering if there's a way of doing this easily within RunRev.

I tried:

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replace "'" with "''" in wRest
But that didn't work (didn't really expect it to).

Any ideas?
Andycal
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Post by Andycal »

Actually, the single quotes did work, the doubles don't:

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replace """ with """" in wRest
malte
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Post by malte »

try

replace quote with quote&quote in wRest

All the best,

malte
Andycal
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Post by Andycal »

!!!WHOOP!!!

Thanks buddy, now finally completed my first proper RunRev app!!

Beers all round!
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