How to escape apostrophe (') in MySql?

Question

The MySQL documentation says that it should be \\\'. However, both scite and mysql shows that \'\' works. I saw that and it works. What should I d

Answer 1

There are three ways I am aware of. The first not being the prettiest and the second being the common way in most programming languages:

1. Use another single quote: 'I mustn''t sin!'
2. Use the escape character \ before the single quote': 'I mustn\'t sin!'
3. Use double quotes to enclose string instead of single quotes: "I mustn't sin!"