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From: Marco Gaiarin <gaio@sv.lnf.it>

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Having said that, im sure some mysqlisms have crept into the code over the last 2-3 years. So im sure a little bit of code cleanup will be needed as well.

As i suppose, i've found a bunch of this. e.g., in

--- ./cgi-bin/admin/currency.pl~ Mon Jul 1 16:59:55 2002 +++ ./cgi-bin/admin/currency.pl Mon Jul 1 17:09:37 2002 @@ -31,7 +31,7 @@ $searchstring=~ s/\'/\\\'/g; my @data=split(' ',$searchstring); my $count=@data; - my $query="Select currency,rate from currency where (currency like \"$data[0]%\") order by currency"; + my $query="Select currency,rate from currency where (currency like '$data[0]%') order by currency"; my $sth=$dbh->prepare($query); $sth->execute; my @results;

Postgres use " for strict escape (inside "", % is a normal character), and ' for normal character enclosing (so inside '' % is a wildcard matching char as supposed). Clearly all file have to be changed, and need to be verified there's no ' character in strings, really common in italian.

In my opinion, this is another very good reason to use the DBI bound parameters and stop using $dbh->quote. This should really by done as: my $query="Select currency,rate from currency where (currency like ?) order by currency"; my $sth=$dbh->prepare($query); $sth->execute($data[0] . '%'); or similar. Then we don't have to worry about Italian using apostrophes, etc. - Alan ---- Alan Millar --==> am12@bolis.com <==--