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Syntax error (missing operator) when using single and double apostrophe(' and ") with the input data

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Dear Experts, Getting Syntax error (missing operator) when inserting data with single and double apostrophe(' and ") .
if i use this way (""" & Me.Text_box & """) it will take single apostrophe but cannot resolve when double apostrophe came in.
Please help
Thanks

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Question by:gtmathewDallas

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by:hnasr

ID: 387383682013-01-02

Try:
Chr(34) & Me.Text_box & Chr(34)

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by:gtmathewDallas

ID: 387383792013-01-02

I tried but showing run time error 2471 :(

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by:gtmathewDallas

ID: 387383822013-01-02

DCount("*", "REVIEW_TYPE", "Review_Name = Chr(34) & Me.Text_RVTEdit.value & Chr(34) and Review_Type_Id <> CLng('" & Me.Combo_RVEdit & "')")

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by:chopper_irl

ID: 387383852013-01-02

it looks like you need to escape the characters, which is done by a single quote so
('I'll be there in a second O'Connor') will be ('I''ll be there in a second O''Connor')
or
(Quote:"Show me the money") would be (Quote':'"Show me the money'")

this is not the safest/best way to escape characters but its a start...

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by:DatabaseMX (Joe Anderson - Microsoft MVP, Access and Data Platform)

ID: 387383942013-01-02

How about

Chr(34) & Replace(Replace(Replace(Me.Text_box, Chr(39),""),Chr(39) & Chr(39),""), Chr(34),"") & Chr(34)

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by:gtmathewDallas

ID: 387383962013-01-02

Actually the user can be enter any type of key values (', ",&,$,% etc ) to the database, is there any way to allow this?
I was using the controls this way- '" & Me.Text_Box & "' but its not working..

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by:hnasr

ID: 387385972013-01-02

Try:

DCOUNT ("*", "REVIEW_TYPE", "Review_Name = " & Chr(34) & Me.Text_RVTEdit.value & Chr(34) & " and Review_Type_Id <> CLng(" & Me.Combo_RVEdit & ")")

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by:Jeffrey Coachman

ID: 387386422013-01-02

<Getting Syntax error (missing operator) when inserting data with single and double apostrophe(' and ") .
Not sure how you are "Inserting", but this works fine for me:

CurrentDb.Execute "INSERT INTO YourTable (YourTextField) Values(" & "'" & Replace(Me.txtTextWithApostrophe, "'", "''") & "'" & ")", dbFailOnError
test.mdb

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by:Jeffrey Coachman

ID: 387386452013-01-02

There may be a way to "tighten up" the syntax in my above post, but again, it works fine for me...

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by:Dale Fye

Dale Fye earned 2000 total points

ID: 387386672013-01-02

I use a function when to format my text strings that are either SQL statements or criteria strings. The function looks like:

Public Function Quotes(varTextToQuote As Variant) As String

   Quotes = Chr$(34) & Replace(Nz(varTextToQuote, ""), Chr$(34), Chr$(39)) & Chr$(34)
   
End Function

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The function will wrap whatever value is passed to it with double quotes, and will replace instances of a " in the text string with double quotes (""), which will be interpreted as a single, embedded quote. It is so much easier to read this than trying to wrap the text value in extra quotes or to use the chr$(34) in your code.

You use the function like:

DCount("*", "REVIEW_TYPE", "Review_Name = " & Quotes(Me.Text_RVTEdit) & " AND [Review_Type_Id] <> CLng(" & Me.Combo_RVEdit & ")")

You really don't need to wrap the value from Me.Combo_RVEdit in single quotes, like you had, prior to using the clng() conversion function.

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by:mbizup

ID: 387396442013-01-03

Any of the above posts should work, but here's another approach using the Parameters collection. This Access VBA is similar to what you would use in .Net:

Private Sub cmdGetCount_Click()
    Dim qd As New DAO.QueryDef
    On Error GoTo EH
    CurrentDb.QueryDefs.Delete ("qtemp")
    Set qd = CurrentDb.CreateQueryDef("qtemp", "SELECT COUNT(*) AS TotReviews FROM REVIEW_TYPE WHERE Review_Name = @ReviewName AND Review_Type_Id <> @ID ")
    With qd
        .Parameters("@ReviewName") = Me.Text_RVTEdit
        .Parameters("@ID") = Me.Combo_RVEdit
    End With
    MsgBox qd.OpenRecordset.Fields("TotReviews")
    Set qd = Nothing
    Exit Sub
EH:
    If Err.Number = 3265 Then Resume Next
    MsgBox "ERROR " & Err.Number & ": " & Err.Description
   
End Sub

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With the parameters collection, you don't need to worry about escaping special characters (because you're not using text or date delimiters), and if you ever upsize to a SQL platform, this method avoids SQL Injection problems in your action queries.

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by:Jeffrey Coachman

ID: 387401642013-01-03

In Reviewing this post, I discovered I was looking at this from the wrong point of view
(SQL Insert)

So my syntax is valid, but not really specific for your situation (DCount)
:-(

Jeff

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by:gtmathewDallas

ID: 387407832013-01-03

Thanks Fyed, Its really simple and a good solution, Thanks.

I want to thank you to all other experts who helped me in this issue...

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by:Dale Fye

ID: 387411292013-01-03

Glad to help.

I have another version of that function which allows you to identify the wrapper, so can choose a single quote (used with SQL Server pass through queries), double quote, or even # for wrapping numbers.

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