Seumas has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:
I have some functions that perform SQL queries (DBI.pm), updates and inserts using data that is passed to the function.
I want to be able to handle both quoted and unquoted strings in this function, so I need to be able to detect whether the strings have been quoted already (and if not, quote() them).
Is there a way to do that? It seems that if I quote() an already quote()'d value, it requotes the existing escape quotes and really screws the string up.
I want to be able to handle both quoted and unquoted strings in this function, so I need to be able to detect whether the strings have been quoted already (and if not, quote() them).
Is there a way to do that? It seems that if I quote() an already quote()'d value, it requotes the existing escape quotes and really screws the string up.
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