The Infamous TICK MARK ( ' )

[JrClown]

Hello all. Here's my Q.

How can I make (or force) my ASP Pages script to accept a Tick Mark (') when typed ???

Example:
...........................................................
^Name:This is a text field
^Comments:This is a text field also

When the user types a tick either as part of their name and\or as part of the comments field, my scripts throw an error, and it will not take the tick at all.

Can you help me on this one? Thanks in advance.
Javascript or VBScript will be fine.











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[hblackorby]

When you do two tick marks, it will print it as normal. Just to a replace(yourstring,&quot;'&quot;,&quot;''&quot to get it to work normally in SQL and other script. This also works with quote marks two. When you do two quote marks in a series in a string, it will print one without throwing an error. Harold Blackorby
hblackorby@scoreinteractive.com
St. Louis, MO

 

[JrClown]

I'm not sure I understood what you just said. Can you visibly show me an example of what you mean please?
Feel free to point where I must use your solution. Thanks

Here's the code I'm using now.

function changed_tick(fieldstring)
holdstring = &quot;&quot;
for x = 1 to len(fieldstring)
holdchar = mid(fieldstring,x,1)
if holdchar = chr(39) then
holdstring = holdstring &amp; &quot;' &quot; &amp; chr(43) &amp; &quot; char(39) &quot; &amp; chr(43) &amp; &quot;'&quot;
elseif holdchar = chr(34) then
holdstring = holdstring &amp; &quot;' &quot; &amp; chr(43) &amp; &quot; char(34) &quot; &amp; chr(43) &amp; &quot;'&quot;
else
holdstring = holdstring &amp; holdchar
end if
next

changed_tick = &quot;'&quot; &amp; holdstring &amp; &quot;%'&quot;
end function
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