Question

Iam trying to return data ( the stored exercises information : Name , period , burned calories that played by the user in a specific date) from Sqlite database in my android app , but an exception occur which is :

 android.database.sqlite.SQLiteException: near ",": syntax error: , while compiling:    SELECT Name, Period, Burned_Calories FROM Exercise WHERE Date = Tuesday, 8/May/2012

why this exception occur, and how i can solve it? please help me ..

this is my code :

DBAdapter db = new DBAdapter(this);
db.open();
String selected_date= date_btn.getText().toString();

 Cursor c = db.getExerciseInfo(selected_date );

 if (c.moveToFirst())
 {
  do 
  {
    Toast.makeText(this ,"Name: "+ c.getString(0) + "\n" + "Period:" +c.getFloat(1)+ "\n" + " burned cals:" +c.getFloat(2)+ "\n" ,Toast.LENGTH_LONG).show();
  }
    while (c.moveToNext());

   }
  db.close();

this is my method in the DBAdapter calss

public Cursor getExerciseInfo(String  date) throws SQLException
        {
       Cursor  C_excer = db.query(EXERCISE_TABLE_NAME, new String[]       {KEY_NAME,KEY_PERIOD,KEY_BURNEDCALS},KEY_DATE +" = " + date, null, null, null, null);
           if (C_excer != null) {
      C_excer.moveToFirst();
             }
        return C_excer;
             }

Answer 1

Try to wrap your date around quotes: ‘ ‘. like this:

 Cursor  C_excer = db.query(EXERCISE_TABLE_NAME, new String[] { KEY_NAME,KEY_PERIOD, KEY_BURNEDCALS}, KEY_DATE + " = '" + date + "'", null, null, null, null);