the string function quote??

[OmbongiMoraa]

Hi,

I'm learing perl and I've just come up with the following statement from a some script:
$content = $dbh->quote($content);

I've read through Blair Ireland's tutorial on perl MySQL functions for the meaning of this quote string function but I'm still not getting it.


Would someone please explain to me in simple language, exactly what the quote() does??

[Rabbit]

It takes a string, puts single quotes around it, and escapes all special characters in the string.

[chorny]

Look also into DBI documentation: http://search.cpan.org/~timb/DBI-1.617/DBI.pm#quote