* Vernon Wu <vernonw@gatewaytech.com> [12.03.2003 05:36]:
> Thank Christoph for your information.
>
> I don't program in C at all, but Java. Although I can make a way to call the C library function from Java, it isn't
suitable
> solution, I believe.
>
> I only desire to find out all the type of characters at the present time so that I can strip out any potential
problemsources
> in text. Who know what characters a user will enter.
>
Take a look at the source code of PQescapeString() in the source
distribution of postgres. I hope, you'll find all the chars you're
interested in.
> >>
> >> First a single quote in text, when a backforward slash in a file path,
> >what other special characters need padded in t
> >wo
> >> backslashes before using the data in a SQL statement?
> >>
> >> After hours' search in the PostgreSQL archive, I find a releted
> >information on the http://www.ca.postgresql.org/users
> >-
> >> lounge/docs/7.2/postgres/arrays.html. It's about array data though.
> >>
> >> How can I find out those characters so that I can pre-process them
> >before a SQL query?
> >>
> >What about
> >size_t PQescapeString (char *to, const char *from, size_t length);
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