If you are using DBI, there is a $dbh->quote()
method that will do what you want. -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, November 07, 2005 11:34 AM To: beginners@perl.org Subject: Regex I have a field that looks like this: 'modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module char-major-10-134' I need to add a single quote so that it looks like this: 'modprobe: modprobe: Can''t locate module char-major-10-134' But I have no idea how to go about doing that, can I get an example? Thanks -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://learn.perl.org/> <http://learn.perl.org/first-response>