Re: weird quote bug

you might want to try escaping the simple slashes aswell... and you have
to double the number of backslashes....

learning=> SELECT * FROM test where x like '\\\\';
x
---
\
(1 row)

*tadaaa*

cheers,
alex

Shane Wright wrote:
> Hi
>
> This is really driving me silly - I can't work it out, can anyone see what I'm doing thats stupid and causing this not to match?
>
>
> This shows that the row exists in the table:
>
>
> emystery=> select aid,useragent from useragent where useragent like '%ntserver-ps%';
> aid | useragent
> -----------+---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> 875741007 | Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.0; file://\\ntserver-ps\publicsw\nt\ie6\ins\active.ins)
> (1 row)
>
>
> this tries to select it (note that I've escaped the backslashes):
>
>
> emystery=> select * from useragent where useragent ilike 'Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.0; file://\\\\ntserver-ps\\publicsw\\nt\\ie6\\ins\\active.ins)';
> aid | useragent | date_added | data_browser | data_version | data_os
> -----+-----------+------------+--------------+--------------+---------
> (0 rows)
>
>
> no match! This one encodes the backslashes (\xxx octal for ASCII value) in a different way:
>
>
> emystery=> select * from useragent where useragent ilike 'Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.0; file://\134\134ntserver-ps\134publicsw\134nt\134ie6\134ins\134active.ins)';
> aid | useragent | date_added | data_browser | data_version | data_os
> -----+-----------+------------+--------------+--------------+---------
> (0 rows)
>
>
> again no match! And to show that the above queries were correct:
>
>
> emystery=> select 'Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.0; file://\\\\ntserver-ps\\publicsw\\nt\\ie6\\ins\\active.ins)';
> ?column?
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.0; file://\\ntserver-ps\publicsw\nt\ie6\ins\active.ins)
> (1 row)
>
> emystery=> select 'Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.0; file://\134\134ntserver-ps\134publicsw\134nt\134ie6\134ins\134active.ins)';
> ?column?
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.0; file://\\ntserver-ps\publicsw\nt\ie6\ins\active.ins)
> (1 row)
>
>
>
> They are identical! I can't work out whats going on! Please, if anyone can see what's wrong it'll stop me careering into my early grave!
>
> Thanks
>
> Shane
>
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