Preserving Single Quotes

I'm using the following code to produce a list of zipcodes
for a radius search:
<cfset Caller.passedreturneddata =
Caller.passedreturneddata & "'#mystruct.zipcode[x]#' or ">
The result is like '12345' or '23456' or '34567'.
CF is turning the single quotes into double quotes and giving
SQL error below. How can I preserve the single quotes?
Error Executing Database Query.
[Macromedia][SequeLink JDBC Driver][ODBC
Socket][Microsoft][ODBC Microsoft Access Driver] Syntax error
(missing operator) in query expression 'fee = No And
Category = Horoscope And Subcategory = Horoscope3 And ZipCode =
''80212'' or
''80212'' or
''80212'' or
''80034'' or
''80214'' or
''80214'' or
''80214'' or
''80214'' or
''80211'' or
''80033'' or
''80033'' or
''80033'' or
''80001'' or
''80002'' or'.
The error occurred in eventsradius.cfm: line 8
6 : And Category = #form.category#
7 : And Subcategory = #form.subcategory#
8 : And ZipCode = #form.zipcode#
9 : Order by date, time
10 : </cfquery>
SQL Select * From Calendar2 Where fee = No And Category =
Horoscope And Subcategory = Horoscope3 And ZipCode = ''80212'' or
''80212'' or ''80212'' or ''80034'' or ''80214'' or ''80214'' or
''80214'' or ''80214'' or ''80211'' or ''80033'' or ''80033'' or
''80033'' or ''80001'' or ''80002'' or ''80002'' or ''80002'' or
''80204'' or ''80295'' or ''80257'' or ''80266'' or ''80266'' or
''80248'' or ''80217'' or ''80265'' or ''80292'' or ''80215'' or
''80215'' or ''80215'' or ''80255'' or Order by date, time
DATASOURCE normmy_denver
VENDORERRORCODE -3100
SQLSTATE 42000
Thanks!
David

That worked for the single quotes, but I've never seen this
error before. Not finding anything in Google either.
Error Executing Database Query.
[Macromedia][SequeLink JDBC Driver][ODBC
Socket][Microsoft][ODBC Microsoft Access Driver] In operator
without () in query expression 'fee = No And Category =
Horoscope And Subcategory = Horoscope3 And ZipCode IN
Select * From Calendar2 Where fee = No And Category =
Horoscope And Subcategory = Horoscope3 And ZipCode IN ''80212','
80212',' 80212',' 80034',' 80214',' 80214',' 80214',' 80214','
80211',' 80033',' 80033',' 80033',' 80001',' 80002',' 80002','
80002',' 80204',' 80295',' 80257',' 80266',' 80266',' 80248','
80217',' 80265',' 80292',' 80215',' 80215',' 80215',' 80255',' ''
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The above code would only allow one or more alphabetic characters. You could make it [a-zA-Z0-9] to allow alphanumeric characters. You could also allow anything but specific characters by doing the following:
var s = theElement.value;
var filter=/[^']*/;
if (s.length == 0 ) return true;
if (filter.test(s))
alert(" Please input a string without a single quote (') in it" );
theElement.focus();
theElement.select();
return false;
else
return true;
Hope this gets you started.
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