db2_escape_string Used to escape certain characters &reftitle.description; stringdb2_escape_string stringstring_literal Prepends backslashes to special characters in the string argument. &reftitle.parameters; string_literal The string that contains special characters that need to be modified. Characters that are prepended with a backslash are \x00, \n, \r, \, ', " and \x1a. &reftitle.returnvalues; Returns string_literal with the special characters noted above prepended with backslashes. &reftitle.examples; Result of using the db2_escape_string function ]]> &example.outputs; &reftitle.seealso; db2_prepare