Contains Predicate and Double Quotes

I have been searching for an escape character or a way of escaping
double quotes that are actually in a string that I am using in the
contains predicate.

Here is an example

select *
from table
where contains(field, '"he said "what is wrong", that is what he
said"')

I need the double quotes in the string because they are part of the
text. Of course, Fulltext search raises the error

Server: Msg 7631, Level 15, State 1, Line 1
Syntax error occurred near 'what is wrong", that is what he said'.
Expected '' in search condition '"he said "what is wrong", that is
what he said"'.

If I remove the double quotes, the search does not return the proper
results.

Thanks in advance for the help
Bill"swtwllm" <swtwllm@.alum.iup.edu> wrote in message
news:c38d6cfb.0402201036.6cdf8d87@.posting.google.c om...
> I have been searching for an escape character or a way of escaping
> double quotes that are actually in a string that I am using in the
> contains predicate.
> Here is an example
> select *
> from table
> where contains(field, '"he said "what is wrong", that is what he
> said"')
> I need the double quotes in the string because they are part of the
> text. Of course, Fulltext search raises the error
> Server: Msg 7631, Level 15, State 1, Line 1
> Syntax error occurred near 'what is wrong", that is what he said'.
> Expected '' in search condition '"he said "what is wrong", that is
> what he said"'.
> If I remove the double quotes, the search does not return the proper
> results.
> Thanks in advance for the help
> Bill

It looks like this has been answered in
microsoft.public.sqlserver.fulltext - please don't post to multiple
newsgroups separately.

Simon|||swtwllm (swtwllm@.alum.iup.edu) writes:
> I have been searching for an escape character or a way of escaping
> double quotes that are actually in a string that I am using in the
> contains predicate.
> Here is an example
> select *
> from table
> where contains(field, '"he said "what is wrong", that is what he
> said"')
> I need the double quotes in the string because they are part of the
> text. Of course, Fulltext search raises the error
> Server: Msg 7631, Level 15, State 1, Line 1
> Syntax error occurred near 'what is wrong", that is what he said'.
> Expected '' in search condition '"he said "what is wrong", that is
> what he said"'.
> If I remove the double quotes, the search does not return the proper
> results.

I would expect doubling the quotes would help, but I don't use full-text
myself, so I don't know.

microsoft.public.sqlserver.fulltext may a better place to ask.

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