Re: Using regex to add a single backslash to escape quotes, instead of 2 backslashes or 0

See the ->quote method of DBI. Do not implement this routine yourself, and even better, use DBI placeholders instead, also documented in DBI.

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Re^2: Using regex to add a single backslash to escape quotes, instead of 2 backslashes or 0 by lancer (Scribe) on Jul 26, 2012 at 17:50 UTC
Thanks for the suggestion, I was able to replace it with this: `sub sql_escape { my $text = shift; $text = DBD::_::db->quote ($text); return $text; }` [download] Outputs: O''REILLY (This format works with MySQL)	[reply] [d/l]
Re^3: Using regex to add a single backslash to escape quotes, instead of 2 backslashes or 0 by Corion (Patriarch) on Jul 26, 2012 at 18:26 UTC
Why don't you use `$dbh->quote(...)` [download] as the documentation suggests?	[reply] [d/l]
Re^4: Using regex to add a single backslash to escape quotes, instead of 2 backslashes or 0 by lancer (Scribe) on Jul 26, 2012 at 21:39 UTC
I needed to convert a CSV file to SQL format (it would be later imported with phpMyAdmin). At the time of conversion there was no database to connect to, but a $dbh can be only created with a connection to a DB. Someone on StackOverflow suggested to use the above solution which works without a DB connection. ( http://stackoverflow.com/a/10458266 )	[reply]


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