Subject Re: [firebird-support] Firebird and the colon (:)
Author Helen Borrie
At 04:52 AM 3/04/2004 +0200, you wrote:
>Any other gotchas with file names etc?
>JVZ.
> >From dicuss.softvelocity.com/comp.lang.clarion
>
>
>Hi
>Just as a quick note to anyone testing with Firebird. I have never
>tried this in the past, but I've recently (in the last year) gone to
>using colon's (:) in my Field names. Well, Firebird doesn't really like
>this a whole lot (think it may be the ODBC driver). So, I suggest you
>don't use them just to make your life a little easier. Just a friendly
>message :)

Well, tell him that you can use colons in object names, provided you
delimit them with double quotes. It's a pretty daft idea but, then, quoted
delimiters were introduced to cater for daft ideas.

/hb