double quotes in Informix fields

Posted in 1991

Walt Hultgren {rmy} — Wed, 26 Jun 91 07:58:49 -0400 — source: Informix-list mailing list archive (1991-1998)

Path: emory!swrinde!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!trac2000!peb From: peb@trac2000.ueci.com (Paul Begley) Newsgroups: comp.databases Keywords: Informix quoted strings Message-ID: <1040@trac2000.ueci.com> Date: 25 Jun 91 20:42:24 GMT Organization: UE&C - Catalytic in Philadelphia, PA We have a significant number of applications which collect engineering data. We have been living with the problem of double quotes in character fields - Informix loses its mind and will not handle it in a 'normal' (to the engineer) fashion. Any thoughts? We are using OnLine engine and 4GL release 4.00 with all our applications using compiled 4GL (versus interpreted).