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escaping single quotes

12 years ago • updated by 12 years ago • 2

How do I escape the single quotes out of a text string so that I can put it into a SQL Database?

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I added this function to functions.html. It works to escape the single quotes but I still have a problem if there are any double quotes in the string.




function dbText(str)


{


	str = str.replaceAll("'", "&#39");


	return str;


}

12 years ago

This is the nature of XML, it does require XML encoding.

For double quotes you would have to use "

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