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tdbc::tokenize − TDBC SQL tokenizer
package require tdbc 1.0
tdbc::tokenize string ______________________________________________________________________________
As a convenience to database drivers, Tcl Database Connectivity (TDBC) provides a command to break SQL code apart into tokens so that bound variables can readily be identified and substituted.
The tdbc::tokenize command accepts as its parameter a string that is expected to contain one or more SQL statements. It returns a list of substrings; concatenating these substrings together will yield the original string. Each substring is one of the following:
[1] |
A bound variable, which begins with one of the characters ’:’, ’@’, or ’$’. The remainder of the string is the variable name and will consist of alphanumeric characters and underscores. (The leading character will be be non-numeric.) | ||
[2] |
A semicolon that separates two SQL statements. | ||
[3] |
Something else in a SQL statement. The tokenizer does not attempt to parse SQL; it merely identifies bound variables (distinguishing them from similar strings appearing inside quotes or comments) and statement delimiters. |
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Copyright (c) 2008 by Kevin B. Kenny.