Hi, I was skimming thru many articles, yet I couldn't find anything on this problem: I'm trying to update/insert into a Sybase database using the Sybperl module. The problem is one of the values that needs to be set may contain a single quote from time to time. For example, the value would be something like: RunSql "delete sometable where strike like '%A-Za-z%'" I've tried many different things, even escaping all non-characters. When the line is run, it croaks.

$test = q/RunSql "delete sometable where strike like '%[A-Za-z]%'"/;

$test =~ s/(['%\[\]\\])/\\$1/g;

$sql = "update job set cmd='". $test ."' where jobname='somejob'";
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Thanks for any help. budman

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