Android quotes within an sql query string

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I want to perform a query like the following:

uvalue = EditText( some user value );
p_query = "select * from mytable where name_field = '" +  uvalue + "'" ;
mDb.rawQuery( p_query, null );

if the user enters a single quote in their input it crashes. If you change it to:

p_query = "select * from mytable where name_field = \"" +  uvalue + "\"" ;

it crashes if the user enters a double quote in their input. and of course they could always enter both single and double quotes.

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