CONTAINS clause problem with apostrophe

[John Kotuby]

Hi all,
I am confused by the MSDN help regarding the Contains clause for fulltext
search.
The Help states that the single-quote does not need to be escaped for
CONTAINS but must be escaped for FREETEXT.

Here is an example of a CONTAINS put together by my search program which
does not produce an error:

AND ( contains((summary),'("girl''s") and ("children''s" | "dog''s")')
OR contains((List_Name),'("girl''s") and ("children''s" | "dog''s")') )
order by list_Name

The fonts in my email are not correctly representing the clause. I have
replaced ' in the word girl's with 2 single quotes as in typical escaping
for strings...similar to a simple:
(Where list_name = 'girl''s'), because (Where list_name = 'girl's') of
course produces a syntax error.

The problem is that I expect only list_names that contain "girl's" to be
returned. However, with the CONTAINS clause using escape for single-quote
also returns any list_name that contains 'girl' as well.

When I don't double up the quotes, the CONTAINS clause returns an error "
syntax error near 's' ", not what is expected by the online Help.

Anybody have some help for me?

 

[John Kotuby]

Sorry everyone...I posted to the wrong group. Meant to post to SqlServer
group.