Working with SQL-Style Strings
Explore how to handle SQL-style strings that use doubled single quotes as escape sequences. Learn to implement cursor-based methods in Laravel to extract, parse, and replace these strings effectively in PHP applications.
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Example SQL query
Consider the sample SQL query below. Suppose we want to extract all of the strings inside it. These values can be a bit trickier to retrieve from a piece of text, mainly because they use two occurrences of the string delimiter character as the escape sequence.
SELECT * FROM companies WHERE name = 'Jim''s Tackle Shop'
OR name = 'Bob''s Burger'
We can also solve this problem using our cursor concept, ...