Apostrophe in a textarea

myself · June 5th, 2006, 01:59 AM

Hi,
How do I get round the problem of an (') apostrophe in a textarea?
Thanks.

ChrisScott · June 5th, 2006, 02:57 AM

Can you be more specific, what is the problem and do you have an example?

Cheers,

Chris

myself · June 5th, 2006, 03:57 AM

When someone enters a word, say it's or I'm the form is not processed. I get an error message. If written without the apostrophe then the data is accepted.
From that I am ssuming, it's the apostrophe 'bug'.

ChrisScott · June 5th, 2006, 04:08 AM

Sounds like you may be doing something with sql on you subsequent page, what is the error message and code on the line causing the error?

myself · June 5th, 2006, 04:06 PM

Error Type:
Microsoft JET Database Engine (0x80040E14)
Syntax error (missing operator) in query expression ''I'm testing')'.
/TheMiddlePath/matconfirm.asp, line 41

ChrisScott · June 6th, 2006, 02:51 AM

If you replace any single quotes in your strings with a pair of single quotes in your SQL statement, everything should work fine, e.g.

Code:

INSERT INTO myTableName(myFieldName) VALUES('I''m testing');

HTH,

Chris

myself · June 6th, 2006, 01:06 PM

Thank you.
But the word I'm testing was put into the 'textarea' on the form and the error came up. Other users may put other words that contain an apostrophe.

This textarea sends info to a MEMO field in ACCESS.

how do I resolve this?
TIA

Imar · June 6th, 2006, 01:15 PM

Hi there,

Take a look here: http://www.adopenstatic.com/faq/80040e14.asp#scenario3a

The idea is that you replace a single quote with two quotes every time you try to update the database (either with an INSERT or an UPDATE statement). The database will know that '' actually means the literal value of ' and won't cause an error. However, only a single ' will be inserted in the database, so next time you need to get the data from the database, it'll look fine.

If you follow the link to the sample function, you see how you can create and use the Replace function to replace each single quote with a pair of quotes.

HtH,

Imar
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myself · June 8th, 2006, 07:26 AM

Still struggling...
Any chance of seeing an example with my code?

(an extract of my code)
mySQL = "INSERT into TABLE(BroDesc)"
mySQL = mySQL & " VALUES ('" & request.form("BroDesc") & "')"
myCon.execute(mySQL)

Hope to hear...

Imar · June 8th, 2006, 07:32 AM

Where is your Replace code??

Try something like this:

Dim myValue
myValue = Replace(request.form("BroDesc"), "'", "''")

Then use myValue instead request.form("BroDesc") in the rest of your code.

Imar