RE: escaping % AND \%

Well, a convenient way to "remove" your \ possibly, and then re-add
them, off the top of my head is to use:

Split-map-join

Where you split on \, map your previous s/// on the results, and then
join with \\.

I'm assuming you want to preserve user \ values as literal chars.

-----Original Message-----
From: Bill Moseley [mailto:moseley@xxxxxxxx]
Sent: Friday, June 29, 2007 4:58 PM
To: CAMPBELL, BRIAN D (BRIAN)
Cc: dbi-users@xxxxxxxx
Subject: 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
moseley@xxxxxxxx

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