Check if a column exists in SQLite

Question

I need to check to see if a column exists and if it doesn\'t exist add it. From my research it looks like sqlite doesn\'t support IF statements and case statement should be

Answer 1

A weird way to check for existing column

public static bool SqliteColumnExists(this SQLiteCommand cmd, string table, string column)
{
    lock (cmd.Connection)
    {
        // make sure table exists
        cmd.CommandText = string.Format("SELECT sql FROM sqlite_master WHERE type = 'table' AND name = '{0}'", table);
        var reader = cmd.ExecuteReader();

        if (reader.Read())
        {
            //does column exists?
            bool hascol = reader.GetString(0).Contains(String.Format("\"{0}\"", column));
            reader.Close();
            return hascol;
        }
        reader.Close();
        return false;
    }
}