Re: Problems with Quotes

I tried that. It starts spitting out the rest of the script to STDIN until it gets to the next " (which is being used to quote a table name about 100 lines further on" at which point it throws an error, and dies.

It seems it really wants me to escape it somehow, but neither '\"' or ''"' seems to work.

-----Original Message-----
From: John DeSoi [mailto:desoi(at)pgedit(dot)com]
Sent: 12 January 2005 18:18
To: Kieran Ashley
Cc: pgsql-sql(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: [SQL] Problems with Quotes

On Jan 12, 2005, at 1:08 PM, Kieran Ashley wrote:

> I've tried using the replace() function to get rid of the ", but I
> can't figure out how to use it without throwing an error. I tried
>
> replace(col_name, '\"', '')
>
> and several other permutations but to no avail, do I need to use
> something like an ASCII character code in order to get rid of a quote?
> If so which one, and if not, is there a better solution?
>

Try '"' as in

select replace('this "is" it', '"', '');
replace
------------
this is it
(1 row)

John DeSoi, Ph.D.
http://pgedit.com/
Power Tools for PostgreSQL

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