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Jan Hoelterling

2006-12-06, 7:13 pm

Hi folks,

how can I use applylocate to find a value that contains ' ?

I need to find "Nature's Way" -> this results in ApplyLocate ("Name =
'Nature's Way'") which of course fails. I've tried to replace the single
quotes with double quotes, but then I get "variable not found Nature's Way
(huh???).

This must be something easy...

Jan


Ken Mayer [dBVIPS]

2006-12-06, 7:13 pm

Jan Hoelterling wrote:
> Hi folks,
>
> how can I use applylocate to find a value that contains ' ?
>
> I need to find "Nature's Way" -> this results in ApplyLocate ("Name =
> 'Nature's Way'") which of course fails. I've tried to replace the single
> quotes with double quotes, but then I get "variable not found Nature's Way
> (huh???).
>
> This must be something easy...


applylocate( "Name=[Nature's Way]" )

Always remember there are three sets of delimiters ... <g>

Ken

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Jan Hoelterling

2006-12-06, 7:13 pm


"Ken Mayer [dBVIPS]" < dbase@_nospam_golden
stag.net> wrote in message
news:yizgi8XGHHA.1140@news-server...
> Always remember there are three sets of delimiters ... <g>


I had thought of that, but because it's an SQL expression, I did not think
using [ ] was valid. You're right, though, it works just fine. Thanks for
your help.

Jan


Ken Mayer [dBVIPS]

2006-12-07, 7:12 pm

Jan Hoelterling wrote:
> "Ken Mayer [dBVIPS]" < dbase@_nospam_golden
stag.net> wrote in message
> news:yizgi8XGHHA.1140@news-server...
>
>
>
> I had thought of that, but because it's an SQL expression, I did not think
> using [ ] was valid. You're right, though, it works just fine. Thanks for
> your help.


Sure -- I've been using that a lot with one project ...

Ken

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