Dynamic record group not working when apostrophes are used

Question

Hi Everyone,
I have developed a Form for the most part everything is working as expected. However, there is a search functionality that is giving me problems. The issue is that when the user enters search criteria for last_name that has an apostrophe (O'brian) the search lov doesn't get populated because the dynamic record group is not getting created when the string has an apostrophe (ie O'brian). I have a dynamic record group that takes the user's search criteria and populates an LOV on the screen with the records that matched their criteria.
Here is the code that is behind my search button where the dynamic RG gets created. It works fine for all searches that don't contain an apostrophe. Btw, the Oracle Forms version is 10g.
DECLARE
p_where_debtor varchar2(2000);
p_where_liab varchar2(2000);
rg_id RecordGroup;
v_query varchar2(2000) := null;
rg_name varchar2(2000):= 'RG_LIAB_LST';
errcode NUMBER;
BEGIN
IF :SEARCH.cd_nb is null and
:SEARCH.cd_seq is null and
:SEARCH.f_name is null and
:SEARCH.l_name is null and
:SEARCH.mi_name is null
then
display_message ('Search criteria must be entered');
raise form_trigger_failure;
END IF;
v_query := 'SELECT last_name, first_name, middle_name, c_no, c_seq
FROM TABLE_VW2 WHERE 1=1';
/*Search criteria entered by user*/
IF :SEARCH.l_name_srch IS NOT NULL THEN
v_query := v_query||' AND UPPER(last_name) LIKE '''||UPPER(:SEARCH.l_name)||'%''';
END IF;
IF :SEARCH.f_name_srch IS NOT NULL THEN
v_query := v_query||' AND UPPER(first_name) LIKE '''||UPPER(:SEARCH.f_name)||'%''';
END IF;
IF :SEARCH.mi_srch IS NOT NULL THEN
v_query := v_query||' AND UPPER(middle_name) LIKE '''||UPPER(:SEARCH.mi_name)||'%''';
END IF;
IF :SEARCH.cdcs_nbr_srch IS NOT NULL THEN
v_query := v_query||' AND UPPER(c_no) LIKE '''||UPPER(:SEARCH.cd_nb)||'%''';
END IF;
IF :SEARCH.cdcs_seq_srch IS NOT NULL THEN
v_query := v_query||' AND UPPER(c_seq) LIKE '''||UPPER(:SEARCH.cd_seq)||'%''';
END IF;
/*Make sure record group doesn't exisit*/
rg_id := Find_Group(rg_name);
/*If it doesn't exist then create record group*/
IF id_null(rg_id) THEN
rg_id:= create_group_from_query(rg_name,v_query);
END IF;
IF NOT id_null (rg_id) THEN
delete_group (rg_id);
rg_id:= create_group_from_query(rg_name, v_query);
END IF;
errcode := Populate_Group(rg_id);
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks,
Adrian

Answer 1

For every item where an apostroph can occur, do a
REPLACE(:BLOCK.ITEM, '''', '''''');