From sqlite-users  Mon Dec 15 05:14:59 2008
From: "P Kishor" <punk.kish () gmail ! com>
Date: Mon, 15 Dec 2008 05:14:59 +0000
To: sqlite-users
Subject: Re: [sqlite] Adding data with periods
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On 12/14/08, aditya siram <aditya.siram@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi all,
>  I'm having trouble adding data with period characters in it. I tries to
>  escape the period with a `'` but that didn' t seem to work. Here is an
>  example interaction:
>
>  sqlite> create table test_table ("Contents" varchar);
>  sqlite> insert into test_table "hello . world";
>  SQL error: near ""hello . world"": syntax error
>  sqlite> insert into test_table "hello '. world";
>  SQL error: near ""hello '. world"": syntax error
>


many errors in the above. The correct syntax would be

sqlite> INSERT INTO test_table VALUES ('hello . world');

note the keyword VALUES, and the text string delimited with single
quotes, not double quotes.
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