by Jan Mohamed (1 Submission)
Category: Databases/Data Access/DAO/ADO
Compatability: VB 6.0
Difficulty: Unknown Difficulty
Originally Published: Sat 1st February 2003
Date Added: Mon 8th February 2021
Rating: 
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Clean Text before insertion into an SQL Server Database
VBcoders
'// This routine just cleans up any strings with offending characters like "'" which
'// cause a problem during an Execute method while updating a database table
'// the first argument is for the string to clean, the second argument is the
'// offending character
'// Author: Jan Mohamed
'// Date: 2nd January 2003
'// Warning: Author name must be retained (as if anyone is going to listen)
'//***************************************************************************
Public Function CleanText(ByVal sTextToClean As String, ByVal sBadText As String) As String
Dim vPosition, lStart As Long
CleanText = Trim(sTextToClean)
lStart = 1
Start_Check:
vPosition = InStr(lStart, CleanText, sBadText)
If vPosition Then
CleanText = Left(CleanText, vPosition) & sBadText & _
Mid(CleanText, vPosition + 1, Len(CleanText))
lStart = vPosition + 2
GoTo Start_Check
End If
End Function
