Re: escaping % AND \%

On Fri, Jun 29, 2007 at 03:03:42PM -0500, CAMPBELL, BRIAN D (BRIAN) wrote:
Then if you want all chars to be treated literally, then I presume you
want:
\%
To be translated to:
\\\%
So just adding your $esc to the left part of s/// should do the trick,
right?

The \\% is translated to:

\\\\%

Which leaves the % unescaped.

I'll just remove "\" from the input. But thought this might be a
reasonably common situation (use % around a search string but not
allow % or _ to be special in the user data.

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Bill Moseley
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