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Thor@Flanders

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Registered: 2010-08-27

Posts: 266

[SOLVED]Where is the backtick?

Hi,

Ok, granted, this IS a silly question, but here goes: where/how to I get the backtick from?

The normal single quote crashes my SQL...

Update restolist set name='Bill's place' where ID = 1

The single quote in the name makes the SQL crash...so I'd have to substitute the others with a backtick...mySQL can accept that...

BYW : I am Flemmish, so this is a AZERTY layout...

I tried this

ALT-96

But that worked in the old days (yep, now you all know HOW old I am ...)
Any nudge (in the right direction, mind ya) would be appreciated...

Tnx

Thor

Last edited by Thor@Flanders (2010-10-25 16:50:27)

lagagnon

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From: an Island in the Pacific...

Registered: 2009-12-10

Posts: 1,087

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Re: [SOLVED]Where is the backtick?

Not sure about your keyboard but on most it is to the left of "1" underneath the tilde (~).

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Thor@Flanders

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Registered: 2010-08-27

Posts: 266

Re: [SOLVED]Where is the backtick?

Thanks!

Found it...does not solve the SQL thing, but at least I'm back on track!

Thanks!

It was right where I left it...

Wellness

Thor

karol

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Registered: 2009-05-06

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Re: [SOLVED]Where is the backtick?

Maybe you should use double quotes?

"Bill's place"

Thor@Flanders

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Registered: 2010-08-27

Posts: 266

Re: [SOLVED]Where is the backtick?

Hi,

Well, I used some Java Magick

theString = theString.replaceAll("'", "`");

Replaces all the "dangerous" quotes with the harmless backtick...

Is Java COOL or what?

Thanks!!!

Thor

barto

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From: Budapest, Hungary

Registered: 2009-10-22

Posts: 88

Re: [SOLVED]Where is the backtick?

Regarding your original question, you may try

xmodmap -pke | grep "grave"

("grave" is actually the official name of backtick)
You will get a line telling you which button backtick is mapped to in the form of

keycode <keycode> = <button alone> <button with Shift> <button alone> <button with Shift> <button with AltGr> <button with AltGr+Shift> <button with AltGr> <button with AltGr+Shift>

In my case (Hungarian layout):

keycode  16 = 7 equal 7 equal grave dead_grave grave dead_grave

It can be decoded to the fact that "grave" is AltGr+7. Which is in fact a fact.

I hope it will be helpful.

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