Title: Issue regarding $wpdb->prepare() while developing Plugin
Last modified: August 24, 2016

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# Issue regarding $wpdb->prepare() while developing Plugin

 *  [afoysal](https://wordpress.org/support/users/afoysal/)
 * (@afoysal)
 * [11 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/issue-regarding-wpdb-prepare-while-developing-plugin/)
 * $wpdb->prepare() is adding single quote (”) like below.
 * I am using below code
 *     ```
       $sql = $wpdb->prepare("SELECT * FROM %s ",$table_name);
       echo $sql;
       ```
   
 * I am getting output like below
 * `SELECT * FROM 'wp_nametbl'`
 * But I would like to get output like below
 * `SELECT * FROM wp_nametbl`

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 * Last reply from: [afoysal](https://wordpress.org/support/users/afoysal/)
 * Last activity: [11 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/issue-regarding-wpdb-prepare-while-developing-plugin/)
 * Status: not resolved

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