Top "Escaping" questions

Escaping is the process of applying an alternate meaning to a character or set of characters.

Escaping a forward slash in a regular expression

My question is a simple one, and it is about regular expression escaping. Do you have to escape a forward …

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What's the Use of '\r' escape sequence?

I have C code like this: #include<stdio.h> int main() { printf("Hey this is my first hello …

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Adding quotes to a string in VBScript

I have this code: a = "xyz" g = "abcd " & a After running it, the value of g is abcd xyz. …

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Can I convert a C# string value to an escaped string literal

In C#, can I convert a string value to a string literal, the way I would see it in code? …

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slashes in url variables

I have set up my coldfusion application to have dynamic urls on the page, such as www.musicExplained/index.cfm/…

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How to escape a JSON string to have it in a URL?

Using Javascript, I want to generate a link to a page. The parameters to the page are in a Javascript …

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using batch echo with special characters

This maybe really easy but there were no answers for it over the net. I want to echo a XML …

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Unescape HTML entities in Javascript?

I have some Javascript code that communicates with an XML-RPC backend. The XML-RPC returns strings of the form: <img …

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How to handle a single quote in Oracle SQL

How do I insert a record in a column having varchar data type having single quote in it? Example: first …

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Regex for quoted string with escaping quotes

How do I get the substring " It's big \"problem " using a regular expression? s = ' function(){ return " It\'s big \"…

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