passing artibrary strings into a database

[schwehr at gmail.com]

Hi All,

I was wondering if there is a helper library out there that will nicely
encode artibrary text so that I can put in into a TEXT field in a
database and then retrieve it without getting into trouble with ',",new
lines or  other such things that would foul the sql insert call and or
be a security hazard?  This feels like a newbee type question, but I
haven't found anything with a quick search.

Thanks,
-kurt