Re: How do I escape a question mark (?)
Re: How do I escape a question mark (?)
- Subject: Re: How do I escape a question mark (?)
- From: Matthew Smith <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 05 Aug 2002 14:28:24 +1000
on 05/08/2002 13:20, Reinhold Penner at email@hidden wrote:
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I need help:
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set x to "test.cgi\?"
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will not compile (expected """ but found unknown token). What's up with
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that? For use in a do shell script, I need to escape a URL that contains
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a .cgi? portion. Pasting the URL with the backslashed ? (\?) works just
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fine in the Terminal, but I can't pass the URL to the shell, since AS
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refuses to compile a string containing "\?". Is there another way of
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escaping in either AS or the shell?
What about:
set x to "test.cgi?"
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Matthew Smith
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