From: Daniel Martin <martin@...>
Date: 2007-06-26T04:14:27+09:00
Subject: Re: addslashes()

"Fred Phillips" <fophillips1990@gmail.com> writes:

> Is there a built-in function in Ruby similar to PHP's addslashes() function?
> MySQL keeps breaking...

Well, this probably indicates that you're doing sql by dynamically
building statements, which is generally a frowned-upon practice in
favor of using prepared statements with ? placeholders.  However, if
you're absolutely determined to do this:

def addslashes(str)
  str.gsub(/['"\\\x0]/,'\\\\\0')
end

def stripslashes(str)
  str.gsub(/\\(.)/,'\1')
end

-- 
s=%q(  Daniel Martin -- martin@snowplow.org
       puts "s=%q(#{s})",s.to_a.last       )
       puts "s=%q(#{s})",s.to_a.last