How to Search strings with and without quotes

Question

Hello,
I need to search a string with quote and without quote the same way
Ex: Wendy's
If user enters wendys without ' also need to return all the Wendy's..!
I appreciate any help...!
Thanks
RG

Answer 1

Hi,
RG wrote:
Hello,
I need to search a string with quote and without quote the same way
Ex: Wendy's
If user enters wendys without ' also need to return all the Wendy's..!
I appreciate any help...!So you want to ignore single-quotes, is that it?
Here's one way:
INSTR ( REPLACE (big_string,       '''')
      , REPLACE (substring_sought, '''')
      )  > 0 
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