RE: [INTERFACES] RE: your mail (Should have been problems with ')

>>
>> >$phone_number =~ s/'/\\'/g;
>>
>> Ok, I tried this - it does what it looks like is supposed to. If I enter:
>> John's shoes, I get John\'s shoes. Unfortunatly I still get an error. If i enter it
>> as John's shoes' ,I dont get an error. Seems like it only likes them in pairs. The funny thing is if
>> I supply them in pairs, it inserts the whole string, I'd have thought that it would parse them
>> or something, and only insert the values between the '.

>Have you tried doing:

> print STDERR ${inputstr}, "\n";

>To see what your 'insert into...' string looks like exactly? It looks
>like you are missing a ' in there somewhere when you are generating yoru
>string...

I tried this, and can see whats causing the error. From apache's error log:
--snip--
\'
\'
\'
none7
[Mon Nov 23 09:54:31 1998] [error] DBD::Pg::db do failed: ERROR: Bad datetime external representation
'Mon Nov 23 09NULLNULL 1998'

--snip--
the time field is the last one to go in here. the insert string looks like:
my $query_string=qq{INSERT INTO CALLS (ca_service_id, ca_org_name, ca_phone_number, ca_status,
ca_product, ca_problem, ca_resolution, ca_contact_name, ca_assigned, ca_date) VALUES ('$service_id',
'$org_name', '$phone_number', '$status', '$product', '$problem', '$resolution', '$contact',
'$assigned', '$time_now')};

It seems like I am getting an extra \' from somewhere. I'll take a look at that. Thanks again to all.

Ken