note pvaldes <p>IMHO the basic problem with your sql files is that don't look really like sql files, thus anything can be a comment and anything can be wrong, even if perl is acting fine.</p> <p>I don't know all databases in the whole world so don't take this advice as immutable, of course, but sql sentences normally aren't complete (and don't run) until you find a semicolon. Is also surprising that you could select a field named '--foo' when you can't even create a table like this:</p> <c>create table (--foo int); # error create table ('--foo' int); # error create table ("--foo" int); # error create table (\-\-foo int); # big error</c> <p>So you are probably trying to solve a nonexistent problem. Comments are always <i>after</i> a semicolon or in your own line. And it you have i.e this:</p> <c>-- ; select * from mytable where foo = "--34"; -- hi ', hi'. "hi'</c> <p>The complete line IS a comment here. I'm quoting lines that I don't want to run (temporally) all the time in sql files, it's not unusual to see something like this.</p> <p>So you should be pointing your arrows to ";" instead to "'". You probably should check and sanitize first what's in your files, before to pass this files to perl</p> 990479 990750