Hello Monks.
I have a database of customers and their addresses. Some of the words in my address fields in the database contain apostrophe '.
Now, when i get the address field , i pass it to javascript method for some more work. here is part of the code:

# Fetch row
my ( $custno, $companyName, $address, $city, $state, $zip) = $SQL->fet
+chrow_array();

print <<EndHTML;
<script language="javascript">
fillCustomer('$custno', '$companyName', '$address', '$city', '$state',
+ '$zip');
</script>
EndHTML
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my problem is that it gives me a runtime error when ever my address record contains an apostrophe character ('). My idea is that somehow i need to add an escape character in that record before the apostrophe, but i do not want to do that.
Any other ideas, guys?
Greatly appreciated.

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