QuoteSQL

Lawrence D'Oliveiro ldo at geek-central.gen.new_zealand
Mon Sep 25 06:53:40 EDT 2006


In message <slrnehfah2.foq.sybrenUSE at schuimige.stuvel.eu>, Sybren Stuvel
wrote:

> Duncan Booth enlightened us with:
>> I think his point was that any '%' characters inside name act like
>> wildcards whereas his version looked for literal percents.
> 
> But of course.
> 
>> This could be an argument for having a utility function to escape
>> the wildcards for this sort of situation, but certainly not an
>> argument for his proposed QuoteSQL.
> 
> Indeed. An escaping function should be small and not do all kinds of
> escaping for different situations at once.

Even when the two situations are related?



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