Question

I am trying to insert text messages from an inbox to a SQLite Database, but due to some special characters/symbols it doesn’t insert properly.

I went through some question in Stackoverflow but nothing seems useful.

I got this code, but it is not working.

data.execSQL("INSERT INTO recor(text) VALUES('"+DatabaseUtils.sqlEscapeString(messag)+"')");

My database has only one field in it and am trying to insert details of messages along with it. I am putting the details (type, time, number, message) to a single string message and recor is my table name.

This is what I get as toast when I use a try catch loop.

Error is near:

“FROM”:syntax error:INSERT INTO recor(text) VALUES(“FROM 15555215556 Message:-MSG”)

Answer 1

Uses the DatabaseAdapter’s insert method instead. e.g.

ContentValues values = new ContentValues();
values.put(COLUMN_NAME, value);
dbAdapter.insert(TABLE_NAME, null, values);

it looks like your column name is ‘text’? this must be wrong, as text is a keyword in sqlite.