On Fri, 1 Aug 2003 05:18:03 +0000 (UTC), Helen Borrie wrote:

> At 04:59 AM 1/08/2003 +0000, you wrote:
>> Firebird Quick Start Guide 1.1 states ...
>>
>> If you need to use an apostrophe inside a Firebird string, you
>> can "escape" the apostrophe character by
>> preceding it with another apostrophe.
>>
>>
>> .... Accepted.
>>
>> What about using ; in strings -->
>>
>> gives an error -> -104 Unexpected end of statement
>>
>> 'stri;ng' gives error.
>
> Not on my system it doesn't.
>
> SQL> SELECT 'abc;def' AS OUTPUT FROM RDB$DATABASE;
> ...

This looks like a parser problem in _very_ old IBX versions.

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Aage J.