Re: On Handling Text (Blob) Column Types in MySQL/CGI

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The simple routine to 'safe' the text wrt quotes etc. is $dbh->quote($text)

Cheers,
Ben.
update doh doh doh dohhhh....I knew that...that'll teach me to not skip the code and just read the description<g> - thanks hb

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Re: Re: On Handling Text (Blob) Column Types in MySQL/CGI by hardburn (Abbot) on Apr 04, 2003 at 14:56 UTC
Using placeholders does that for you automagically. ---- I wanted to explore how Perl's closures can be manipulated, and ended up creating an object system by accident. -- Schemer Note: All code is untested, unless otherwise stated	[reply]

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