SkipComments function

In unit DB

Skip SQL comments.

Declaration

pascal

function SkipComments(var p: PChar; EscapeSlash: Boolean; 
 EscapeRepeat: Boolean): Boolean

Arguments

`p`	Pointer to null-terminated string containing a SQL statement.
`EscapeSlash`	Is a backslash an escape character.
`EscapeRepeat`	Are repeated quotes considered a single character.

Function result

True if a comment was skipped.

Description

SkipComments examines the null-terminated string in P and skips any SQL comment or string literal found at the start. It returns P the first non-comment or non-string literal position. The EscapeSlash parameter determines whether the backslash character (\) functions as an escape character (i.e. the following character is not considered a delimiter). EscapeRepeat must be set to True if the quote character is repeated to indicate itself.

The function returns True if a comment was found and skipped, False otherwise.

Errors

No checks are done on the validity of P.