VB.net Escaping

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Stefan Richter

How do I encode double quotes and quotes and in a string in VB.NET?
It also has to be save for MS SQL Server...


Stefan
 
If you use stored procedures, you dont need a lot of the quote and
other escaping you need to do otherwise. That being said, the only
"quote" issue you have (no pun intended) is with single quotes. In
this case, double the single quotes. A common way of doing this is
with the Replace method ...

sql = replace(str, "'", "''")

That's a single quote surrounded by double quotes as the 2nd parameter
and two single quotes surrounded by double quotes as the 3rd
parameter.
 
Stefan Richter said:
How do I encode double quotes and quotes and in a string in VB.NET?
It also has to be save for MS SQL Server...
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I would recommend avoiding escaping entirely when it comes to SQL
statements - use parameters instead, and you don't need to worry about
formatting or escaping.

You don't have to be using stored procedures to use parameters.

See http://www.pobox.com/~skeet/csharp/faq/#db.parameters for more
information.
 
Stefan,
How do I encode double quotes and quotes and in a string in VB.NET?
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You include double quotes in a string by doubling them, like this

"a ""quoted"" word"



Mattias
 
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