Re: output a single and double quote in a string

Hi Michael,

You're right, I did drop the || operator at the end of the first line when
copying Keith's code. I also made the assumption (perhaps mistakenly) that
Keith was using this in plpgsql, hence the escaped '.

Regards,
George

----- Original Message -----
From: "Michael Fuhr" <mike(at)fuhr(dot)org>
To: "George Weaver" <gweaver(at)shaw(dot)ca>
Cc: <KeithW(at)narrowpathinc(dot)com>; "PostgreSQL Novice"
<pgsql-novice(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Sent: Friday, March 18, 2005 8:56 PM
Subject: Re: [NOVICE] output a single and double quote in a string

> On Fri, Mar 18, 2005 at 05:13:32PM -0600, George Weaver wrote:
>>
>> SELECT length_ft::text || chr(39)
>> length_in::text || \' " \' AS length_dim,
>> width_ft::text || chr(39) ||
>> width_in::text || \' " \' AS width_dim
>> FROM sales_order.tbl_net_production;
>
> Not quite -- that produces errors because of a missing || operator
> and single quotes that shouldn't be escaped (at least not in a
> standalone query). Perhaps you meant this:
>
> SELECT length_ft::text || chr(39) ||
> length_in::text || '"' AS length_dim,
> width_ft::text || chr(39) ||
> width_in::text || '"' AS width_dim
> FROM sales_order.tbl_net_production;
>
> Other examples:
>
> SELECT '\'' AS single_quote, '"' AS double_quote;
> SELECT '''' AS single_quote, '"' AS double_quote;
> SELECT $$'$$ AS single_quote, $$"$$ AS double_quote; -- 8.0 and later
>
> See "String Constants" in the "SQL Syntax" chapter of the documentation:
>
> http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.0/interactive/sql-syntax.html#SQL-SYNTAX-CONSTANTS
>
> --
> Michael Fuhr
> http://www.fuhr.org/~mfuhr/
>