Sanitizing MySQL user parameters.

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Published on 2008-10-23T14:17:00Z Indexed on 2010/06/15 17:52 UTC
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What are the dangerous characters that should be replaced in user input when the users' input will be inserted in a MySQL query? I know about quotes, double quotes, \r and \n. Are there others?
_{(I don't have the option of using a smart connector that accepts parameters so I have to build the query myself and this will be implemented in multiple programming languages, including some obscure ones so solutions such as mysql_real_escape_string in PHP are not valid)}

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