I'm trying to put together an SQL statement to write some data to an access database. Some of the fields I want to write are multi line, its windows so the data contains carridge return line feed (ascii values 13 and 10). Unfortunately the sql statement regards this as a return character so it only processes half the line eg... 
$a = "aaaaa\n";
$a = $a."bbbbb";
$sql="insert into test (field1) value '$a';

produces
insert into test (field1) value 'aaaaa
bbbbb'

what it actually runs is 
insert into test (field1) value 'aaaaa

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Which obviously doesn't work. What I need to do (I think) is to replace the cr/lf characters in the text with ' + Chr(13) + Chr(10) + ' 
$sql="insert into test (field1) value 'aaaaaaa' + Chr(13) + Chr(10) + 
+'bbbbbbbb';

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works correctly.
My question is....
how do I work the substitution. 
$a =~ s/chr(13)chr(10)/' + Chr(13) + Chr(10) + '/;

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doesn't work. As far as I can see it is interpreting + Chr(13) + Chr(10) and putting it back in as ascii value 13 and ascii value 10 rather than padding it out the way I need. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

In reply to replacing carriage return line feed usinf chr() by Piercer

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