Re: Placeholders, safety and the relative unimportance of efficiency

Some people will probably naively ignore this advice because they think that it's unlikely that their program will ever use a value of just a single quote...

But this issue is extremely important. You will certainly want to be able to handle more realistic values like "O'Connor" and "Smith's Bakery". If you let DBI handle the quoting for you, you will save yourself a lot of trouble fixing annoying bugs.

buckaduck

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Re: Re: Placeholders, safety and the relative unimportance of efficiency by petdance (Parson) on Nov 20, 2001 at 02:14 UTC
Some people will probably naively ignore this advice because they think that it's unlikely that their program will ever use a value of just a single quote... You can always tell the inexperienced programmers. They say things like "Oh, that'll never happen." xoxo, Andy -- <megaphone> Throw down the gun and tiara and come out of the float! </megaphone>	[reply]