Report parameter field value has a single quote. need to escape before pass

Report has a parameter whose value might have a single quote in it. If I pass that value directly into the SQL Command... like
where ... user_name = {?parm_user_name}...
which would translate to
user_name='O'Donnel Honda'
I am getting an error... so would like to convert this parameter value into 'O''Donnel Honda' before passing into the query.
I created a formula called parse_user_name with following:
Replace ({?parm_user_name}, "'", "''")
And used in the query like
where ... user_name = {@parse_user_name}...
I am getting an error like invalid SQL92 character...

I think you should use the condition like this
where ... user_name = '{?parm_user_name}'
keep the parameter in single quote at the command level itself.
Now use the same formula like
replace({?Parameter},"'","''")
This works only if the parameter is a single value parameter but not multi value parameter.
Regards,
Raghavendra

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