Hi, I am trying to insert a lots file paths into an SQLite table and am having trouble with filenames with apostrophes in.
Below is the snippet I have been using. I have experimented with sprintf, qq and a combination of both but can't get a quoting system that will get DBI to accept paths like q(/path/to/Camellia japonica 'Mercury'2.tif). I don't want to transform the path. I want to maintain the true path without having to do substitiutions everytime the data gets read from or inserted into the table. It would be a maintenance headache otherwise. Is there a technique for this anyone or any advice anyone can offer (apart from shooting the users how uploaded the files in the first place). TIA, Dp. sub Check_if_exists { my $name = shift; my $str = qq($name); my $statement = sprintf("SELECT id FROM files where path='%s'",$str); # my $statement = qq("SELECT id FROM files where path="$str""); my $rows = $dbh->selectrow_array($statement) or die "Can't selectrow_array statement=$statement: ",$DBI::errstr,"\n"; return $rows; } DBD::SQLite::db selectrow_array failed: near "Mercury": syntax error(1) at dbdimp.c line 271 at myfile.pm line 158. Can't selectrow_array statement=SELECT id FROM images where tiffpath='/data/finished/GB 10484/Camellia japonica 'Mercury'2.NEF.tif': near "Mercury": syntax error(1) at dbdimp.c line 271 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://learn.perl.org/