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albertkohl
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740 Posts

Posted - 2007-11-20 : 18:49:00

how would i run something like this:

select * from zipinfo2 where county like "%'%"

i know i cant use the double quotes, and they would usually be single quotes, but i cant because i'm looking for a single quote.

any help would be great! i'm sure it's something dumb :o)

tkizer
Almighty SQL Goddess

38200 Posts

Posted - 2007-11-20 : 18:54:47

LIKE '%[']%'

Tara Kizer
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albertkohl
Aged Yak Warrior

740 Posts

Posted - 2007-11-20 : 20:12:52

select * from zipinfo2 where county LIKE '%[']%'

Msg 102, Level 15, State 1, Line 1
Incorrect syntax near ']'.
Msg 105, Level 15, State 1, Line 1
Unclosed quotation mark after the character string ''.

Haywood
Posting Yak Master

221 Posts

Posted - 2007-11-20 : 20:45:22

[code]
CREATE TABLE Foo (State varchar(10))

INSERT INTO Foo
VALUES ('Foo''Bar')

SELECT *
FROM Foo

SELECT *
FROM Foo
WHERE State LIKE '%''%'
[/code]

madhivanan
Premature Yak Congratulator

22864 Posts

Posted - 2007-11-21 : 01:01:31

or

1 like '%'+char(39)+'%'
2 charindex('''',col)>0

Madhivanan

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