JavaScript and SQL

Question

Helo Everyone,
I am writing a PL/SQL package, dealing with names and IDs. The names in the database are:
Farhan
John
Jack
Mary
Mary #1
Mary #2 I am using Javascript to write SQL strings that are used for queries. I have a name variable in Javascript that is used to store the names from the databse. First, I retrieved the names by:
Select name from Friends; then, I used bulk collect to stores the names into a variable. On my display, I have a list (a textarea) where you can click on the name and it uses that specified name for the Javascript variable. My query is something like:
"Select *" + " from Friends" +st1+ " where name =variable";When I click on the names Farhan, John, Jack , and Mary my query works and the right results are displayed on the screen.
But when I choose Mary #1 or Mary #2 from my textarea, no results are displayed on the screen eventhough Mary #1 and
Mary #2 are valid names in the database.
I am thinking that Javascript has a problem when passing the # to SQL strings. Is there any way around this problem?

Answer 1

The alert shows the following:
select * from Names where id in ('Mary #2') I am using a variable called nameid, which I pass in the query so this is my Javascript string:
query:= 'select *' +
            ' from Names'+
            ' where id in ("+nameid+")";
{code}
I select the names from a textarea and any name with the # sign in it doesn't work. The other names without the # sign works fine.
Also, I ran the query separately and all of them works (even those that have # signs in it). It just doesn t work with JS.
Any ideas??