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.
tdbc(n), tdbc::connection(n), tdbc::statement(n), tdbc::resultset(n)
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Copyright (c) 2008 by Kevin B. Kenny.