html_url,issue_url,id,node_id,user,created_at,updated_at,author_association,body,reactions,issue,performed_via_github_app
https://github.com/simonw/sqlite-utils/issues/196#issuecomment-722070569,https://api.github.com/repos/simonw/sqlite-utils/issues/196,722070569,MDEyOklzc3VlQ29tbWVudDcyMjA3MDU2OQ==,9599,2020-11-05T01:38:40Z,2020-11-05T01:38:40Z,OWNER,"I'm going to try `re.VERBOSE` to see if I can make this readable with comments. https://docs.python.org/3/howto/regex.html
```python
charref = re.compile(r""""""
 &[#]                # Start of a numeric entity reference
 (
     0[0-7]+         # Octal form
   | [0-9]+          # Decimal form
   | x[0-9a-fA-F]+   # Hexadecimal form
 )
 ;                   # Trailing semicolon
"""""", re.VERBOSE)
```","{""total_count"": 0, ""+1"": 0, ""-1"": 0, ""laugh"": 0, ""hooray"": 0, ""confused"": 0, ""heart"": 0, ""rocket"": 0, ""eyes"": 0}",736520310,
https://github.com/simonw/sqlite-utils/issues/196#issuecomment-722064258,https://api.github.com/repos/simonw/sqlite-utils/issues/196,722064258,MDEyOklzc3VlQ29tbWVudDcyMjA2NDI1OA==,9599,2020-11-05T01:18:07Z,2020-11-05T01:21:31Z,OWNER,"```
In [8]: r = re.compile(r""""""'[^']*(?:''[^']*)*'"""""")
In [9]: r.match(""'fo'o'"")
Out[9]: <re.Match object; span=(0, 4), match=""'fo'"">
In [10]: r.match(""'fo''o'"")
Out[10]: <re.Match object; span=(0, 7), match=""'fo''o'"">
```

`'[^']*(?:''[^']*)*'`

This matches a single quote, then 0+ not-single-quotes, then 0+ (either 0+ not-single quotes or a double single quote), then a single quote.

Unrolling the loop technique described here: http://www.softec.lu/site/RegularExpressions/UnrollingTheLoop","{""total_count"": 0, ""+1"": 0, ""-1"": 0, ""laugh"": 0, ""hooray"": 0, ""confused"": 0, ""heart"": 0, ""rocket"": 0, ""eyes"": 0}",736520310,
https://github.com/simonw/sqlite-utils/issues/196#issuecomment-722062449,https://api.github.com/repos/simonw/sqlite-utils/issues/196,722062449,MDEyOklzc3VlQ29tbWVudDcyMjA2MjQ0OQ==,9599,2020-11-05T01:12:14Z,2020-11-05T01:12:14Z,OWNER,"Good news: I don't think I have to deal with `foo.tablename`, because that doesn't get reflected in the `sqlite_master` table:
```
sqlite> attach 'foo.db' as foo;
sqlite> create table foo.`bant` (id int);
sqlite> select * from foo.sqlite_master;
table|bant|bant|2|CREATE TABLE `bant` (id int)
```","{""total_count"": 0, ""+1"": 0, ""-1"": 0, ""laugh"": 0, ""hooray"": 0, ""confused"": 0, ""heart"": 0, ""rocket"": 0, ""eyes"": 0}",736520310,
https://github.com/simonw/sqlite-utils/issues/196#issuecomment-722062082,https://api.github.com/repos/simonw/sqlite-utils/issues/196,722062082,MDEyOklzc3VlQ29tbWVudDcyMjA2MjA4Mg==,9599,2020-11-05T01:10:51Z,2020-11-05T01:10:51Z,OWNER,"I confirmed all three of these are valid syntax for creating tables:
```
~ % sqlite3 tmp.db
SQLite version 3.28.0 2019-04-15 14:49:49
Enter "".help"" for usage hints.
sqlite> create table 'foo''and' (id int);
sqlite> create table ""bar""""and"" (id int);
sqlite> create table [baz] (id int);
sqlite> create table `bant` (id int);
sqlite> .schema
CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS 'foo''and' (id int);
CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS ""bar""""and"" (id int);
CREATE TABLE [baz] (id int);
CREATE TABLE `bant` (id int);
sqlite> select * from sqlite_master;
table|foo'and|foo'and|2|CREATE TABLE 'foo''and' (id int)
table|bar""and|bar""and|3|CREATE TABLE ""bar""""and"" (id int)
table|baz|baz|4|CREATE TABLE [baz] (id int)
table|bant|bant|5|CREATE TABLE `bant` (id int)
```","{""total_count"": 0, ""+1"": 0, ""-1"": 0, ""laugh"": 0, ""hooray"": 0, ""confused"": 0, ""heart"": 0, ""rocket"": 0, ""eyes"": 0}",736520310,
https://github.com/simonw/sqlite-utils/issues/196#issuecomment-722058598,https://api.github.com/repos/simonw/sqlite-utils/issues/196,722058598,MDEyOklzc3VlQ29tbWVudDcyMjA1ODU5OA==,9599,2020-11-05T00:59:58Z,2020-11-05T00:59:58Z,OWNER,"That two-in-a-row thing works for `""` too:

https://latest.datasette.io/fixtures?sql=select+%22foo%22%2C+%27bar%27%2C+%22foo%22%22and%22%2C+%27bar%27%27and%27

<img width=""501"" alt=""fixtures__select__foo____bar____foo__and____bar__and_"" src=""https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/9599/98184381-1da6f580-1ebf-11eb-9396-beb4586d69ca.png"">
","{""total_count"": 0, ""+1"": 0, ""-1"": 0, ""laugh"": 0, ""hooray"": 0, ""confused"": 0, ""heart"": 0, ""rocket"": 0, ""eyes"": 0}",736520310,
https://github.com/simonw/sqlite-utils/issues/196#issuecomment-722057923,https://api.github.com/repos/simonw/sqlite-utils/issues/196,722057923,MDEyOklzc3VlQ29tbWVudDcyMjA1NzkyMw==,9599,2020-11-05T00:57:22Z,2020-11-05T00:57:22Z,OWNER,"Then https://sqlite.org/lang_expr.html#literal_values_constants_ says:

>  A string constant is formed by enclosing the string in single quotes ('). A single quote within the string can be encoded by putting two single quotes in a row - as in Pascal. C-style escapes using the backslash character are not supported because they are not standard SQL. ","{""total_count"": 0, ""+1"": 0, ""-1"": 0, ""laugh"": 0, ""hooray"": 0, ""confused"": 0, ""heart"": 0, ""rocket"": 0, ""eyes"": 0}",736520310,
https://github.com/simonw/sqlite-utils/issues/196#issuecomment-722057392,https://api.github.com/repos/simonw/sqlite-utils/issues/196,722057392,MDEyOklzc3VlQ29tbWVudDcyMjA1NzM5Mg==,9599,2020-11-05T00:55:31Z,2020-11-05T00:55:51Z,OWNER,"https://sqlite.org/lang_keywords.html says:

> There are four ways of quoting keywords in SQLite:
>
> **'keyword'** A keyword in single quotes is a string literal.
> **""keyword""** A keyword in double-quotes is an identifier.
> **[keyword]** A keyword enclosed in square brackets is an identifier. This is not standard SQL. This quoting mechanism is used by MS Access and SQL Server and is included in SQLite for compatibility.
> **\`keyword\`** A keyword enclosed in grave accents (ASCII code 96) is an identifier. This is not standard SQL. This quoting mechanism is used by MySQL and is included in SQLite for compatibility.","{""total_count"": 0, ""+1"": 0, ""-1"": 0, ""laugh"": 0, ""hooray"": 0, ""confused"": 0, ""heart"": 0, ""rocket"": 0, ""eyes"": 0}",736520310,
https://github.com/simonw/sqlite-utils/issues/196#issuecomment-722056576,https://api.github.com/repos/simonw/sqlite-utils/issues/196,722056576,MDEyOklzc3VlQ29tbWVudDcyMjA1NjU3Ng==,9599,2020-11-05T00:52:42Z,2020-11-05T00:52:42Z,OWNER,"I could use a parsing library like https://parsy.readthedocs.io/en/latest/tutorial.html for this - or `pyparsing` which has a SQLite example here: https://github.com/pyparsing/pyparsing/blob/master/examples/select_parser.py

I'd rather not add a new dependency for this though so I'm going to see if I can get something that's good-enough just using a regular expression.","{""total_count"": 0, ""+1"": 0, ""-1"": 0, ""laugh"": 0, ""hooray"": 0, ""confused"": 0, ""heart"": 0, ""rocket"": 0, ""eyes"": 0}",736520310,
https://github.com/simonw/sqlite-utils/issues/196#issuecomment-722055291,https://api.github.com/repos/simonw/sqlite-utils/issues/196,722055291,MDEyOklzc3VlQ29tbWVudDcyMjA1NTI5MQ==,9599,2020-11-05T00:48:10Z,2020-11-05T00:48:10Z,OWNER,This is blocking landing `.search()` in #195,"{""total_count"": 0, ""+1"": 0, ""-1"": 0, ""laugh"": 0, ""hooray"": 0, ""confused"": 0, ""heart"": 0, ""rocket"": 0, ""eyes"": 0}",736520310,
https://github.com/simonw/sqlite-utils/issues/196#issuecomment-722055104,https://api.github.com/repos/simonw/sqlite-utils/issues/196,722055104,MDEyOklzc3VlQ29tbWVudDcyMjA1NTEwNA==,9599,2020-11-05T00:47:34Z,2020-11-05T00:47:34Z,OWNER,"This is surprisingly difficult. I need to parse the `CREATE VIRTUAL TABLE` statement, which will look something like this:

```sql
CREATE VIRTUAL TABLE ""global-power-plants_fts"" USING FTS5 (""name"", content=""global-power-plants"")
```

The problem is I need to be able to handle various different quoting formats for the table name (`mytable` v.s. `""mytable""` v.s. `[mytable]`) plus I need to look out for `CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS`.","{""total_count"": 0, ""+1"": 0, ""-1"": 0, ""laugh"": 0, ""hooray"": 0, ""confused"": 0, ""heart"": 0, ""rocket"": 0, ""eyes"": 0}",736520310,