my dearest brother monks,

I am having trouble writing to a mysql database only when the text I'm trying to enter contains an " ' " (an apostrophe).
The connection is fine and I can easily write the time and date to the database, but when I put text with apostophe's (<---like that one) into my scalar $body or $header it crashes.

Below is the code I'm using to write into the database. Values for each scalar were defined earlier in the program. 
$dsn = "DBI:mysql:database;localhost";
           
$dbh = DBI->connect($dsn,'user','password');
$sth = $dbh->prepare("INSERT INTO press_releases (time,date,ticker,hea
+der,body) VALUES ('$time','$date','$ticker','$header','$body');");

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Example $body scalar that would instigate a crash would be: "I don't care."

how do i get the mysql to accept these scalars without crashing?

thanks,
cdherold

In reply to text entry into mysql using perl by cdherold

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