Re: escaping % AND \%

On Fri, Jun 29, 2007 at 04:01:25PM +0100, Raf wrote:
But if $search_pattern is '\%' then you end up with '\\%'.

If you have a user defined search pattern which is \%, then you can assume
that user wanted to match against the '%' litteral, right? So \\% is what
you'd want, isn't it?

No, I don't want to give the user access to the % or _. I'm using

'%' . $user_string . '%'

but I don't want $user_string to have any special characters. If
$user_string includes \ or % or _ I want them to be literal, without
special meaning.



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