Replacing Double Quote by Single Quote

Question

I have a GridView where I will display the data in my table. In my table, I have:

FIELD ITEM
=======
Fruit"s
Vegetable"s

That's how I saved it in my table. So in saving, I'm using Replace("'", "\\""); but my problem is now how should I display it again in single quote.

This is how I saved it

SQLCMD = "INSERT INTO Table(fldItem) VALUES ('" + _strItem.Replace("'", "\"") + "')";

but when I tried to used it in code-behind:

string _qry = "SELECT Replace(fldItem,'"','''') FROM Table";

There's an error saying

Too many characters in character literal

Answer 1

You need to escape the " with a backslash, \\" .

So,

string _qry = "SELECT Replace(fldItem,'\"','''') FROM Table";

OR

string _qry = @"SELECT Replace(fldItem,'""','''') FROM Table";

Test

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