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yyc
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Posted - 05/18/2005 :  10:00:34  Show Profile
I want to search a phrase such as dog's which contains the special character but I find no way to escape it.

I use the following sql,

select title from book where title like '%dog's%'

but it does not work. Any suggestion? Thanks.

yyc

TG
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USA
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Posted - 05/18/2005 :  10:04:01  Show Profile
2 single quotes instead of one. ie: '%dog''s%'

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madhivanan
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Posted - 05/18/2005 :  10:05:28  Show Profile  Send madhivanan a Yahoo! Message
Try this

select title from book where title like '%dog''s%'


Madhivanan

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yyc
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Posted - 05/18/2005 :  12:32:30  Show Profile
Oh thanks a lot guys! I have surf to countless site using google but I can't get a way to solve the problem. The suggestion from both of you really great, thanks again!

yyc
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