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Re: Escaping certain characters
From: Jan Danielsson <jan.danielsson@gmail.com>
Date: Sun Jul 31 2005 - 23:46:09 CEST
Date: Sun Jul 31 2005 - 23:46:09 CEST
Robert Kern wrote:
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>> Hmm... On second thought, I need to escape more characters.
>>
>> Is there no other way to escape characters in strings?
>
> Which characters?
I need to escape '\n', '"', '[' and ']'. I finally went with a few of
these:
string.replace('\n', '\\n')
string.replace('"', '\\"')
...
I assume that's good enough, but I somehow expected there to exist
some form of "insert your conversion table here" built-in string escaper.
Received on Thu Sep 29 17:18:03 2005