Top "Escaping" questions

How to encode special characters using mod_rewrite & Apache?

I would like to have pretty URLs for my tagging system along with all the special characters: +, &, #, %, and =. Is …

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What's the escape sequence for blanks in C?

I'm writing a program to count blanks, tabs, and newlines. I remember what the escape sequence for tabs and newlines …

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Is there a way to escape a CDATA end token in xml?

I was wondering if there is any way to escape a CDATA end token (]]>) within a CDATA section in …

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Colorize logs in eclipse console

Is there a way to colorize parts of logs in the eclipse console. I know I could send to error …

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mysql_escape_string VS mysql_real_escape_string

So this is something we all should know about, and played on my mind when I first seen it.. I …

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escaping backslash in java string literal

I am using Java for a while and come up with this problem: I use hard-coded paths in windows like "…

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How to escape double quotes in as a parameter to an NUnit TestCase?

I tried writing the following TestCase for an NUnit test written in VB.net: <TestCase("FirstNode", "<node id=\"…

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PowerShell script not accepting $ (dollar) sign

I am trying to open an SQL data connection using a PowerShell script and my password contains a $ sign: $cn = …

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How can I remove the ANSI escape sequences from a string in python

This is my string: 'ls\r\n\x1b[00m\x1b[01;31mexamplefile.zip\x1b[00m\r\n\x1…

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How to un-escape a backslash-escaped string?

Suppose I have a string which is a backslash-escaped version of another string. Is there an easy way, in Python, …

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