Dynamic insert for Special Characters

Hello,
I'm running into a problem inserting data with Special Characters. I have a report (designed oracle reports), that takes data and inserts the data into table. I use the SRW.do_sql built in package in a before report trigger to process the data. However the problem that I'm running into is how to dynamically account for the special characters in a description field that I have. There is no way for me to predict where or how many can appear in a field. For example, I may have a field that contains data like:
O'REILLY AND ASSOCIATES INC.
OR
FULLER & D'ALBERT, INC.
OR
JOANNE'S BED & BACK SHOP
The only special characters that seem to be used and are causing me problems are the " ' " and " & ".
Does anyone know how I can dynamically account for these special characters in my insert statement?
Thanks,
Martin

Hello,
I'm using SRW.DO_SQL procedure in oracle reports because that is one you can run text via reports. The report actually exports the results to a text file and insert the results into a table. Anyway, the SRW.DO_SQL isn't my problem but rather the special characters. I have researched the problem some more and I have found a solution. You can use the "replace" feature to do an insert/update of special characters. You also need to find the character number for each special character. I believe "&" is chr(38), "%" is chr(37), "#" is chr(35), "@" is chr(64), "'" is char(39). So the code would be:
insert into tableA (column1) values(
replace(replace(replace(replace(replace(v_entity_name,chr(39),chr(39)),chr(38),chr(38)),chr(35),chr(35)),chr(37),chr(37)),chr(64),chr(64));
Martin

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