Using an apostrophe in a textbox -- asp.net webcontrols

susie
10/31/2003 9:23:34 AM

Use string manipulation functions
'---
Sub ChangeBox( s As Object, e As EventArgs )
Dim a As String = txtBox.Text
Dim b As String
dim c as String
dim d as String
b = right(a, 1)
c=left(a,len(a)-1)
d=c+"'"+b
txtBox.Text=d
End Sub

'---------
<asp:TextBox
ID="txtBox"
AutoPostBack="True"
onTextChanged="ChangeBox"
Runat="Server"/>

The above code should work. You will need to change to
datasource for the textbox if it is populated from SQL
server.

Good luck.
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Doug
10/31/2003 9:49:00 AM

Thanks for the reply. That will work for the case I
mentioned, but there are other scenarios that are
different: A'Chen, Frank's Foods, Linens 'N Things, etc.
I cannot know how the users are going to want the store
names displayed, so I must be able to replicate an
apostrophe at any position in the string.

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vMike
10/31/2003 1:02:52 PM

You might want to look into
HttpUtility.HtmlEncode
and
HttpUtility.HtmlDecode

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Doug
10/31/2003 1:12:06 PM

I looked at that but don't see how that is going to
help. Somehow I am losing the apostrophe between the
textbox and the code behind .vb page. It is missing in
the locals window for textbox.text as soon as it comes up
there. If I type in 2 apostrophes they show up in locals.

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jose
10/31/2003 3:44:28 PM

so after assignment, str has Macys
without the apostrophe?
when debugging, does textbox.text contain the apostrophe?
I don't know if this will work for your case but I had
a somewhat similar problem when trying to update a text
field in a MS Access table. Access was reading the
apostrophe as a single quote and generating an error.
I used something like this to "double-up" the single quote.
string str = textbox.text.Replace("'", "''");

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Doug
11/3/2003 5:04:13 AM

The apostrophe exists in the textbox, but does not in
debugging when it will be assigned to a variable. I had
written almost that exact code to double up the
apostrophe to add to my update query, but without the
first apostrophe, I can't get a second one. Weird...

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Doug
11/3/2003 11:31:26 AM

It looks like either the page or project has become
corrupt. If I duplicate the functionality in a new
project, it works fine. Thanks for everyone's input.

Doug

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