Recommended way to encode/decode URLs [duplicate]
You’re looking for the “net/url” package. http://golang.org/pkg/net/url/#QueryEscape
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How to escape asterisk in regexp?
You have to escape it with a backslash: /\*1\*/ Otherwise, an unescaped * in a RegExp will mean: Match 0 or more of the Preceding Character Group. Update: If you use the RegExp constructor, do it this way: new RegExp(“\\*1\\*”) You have to double-escape the backslashes because they need to be escaped in the string … Read more
Do I need to escape backslash in a config file?
You don’t need that. Anything within an attribute value is character data. Since you’re reading these values using C#, they’ll get escaped as if they would be a literal path string in code. Anyway, you might want to know that C# has @ operator to declare verbatim strings, meaning that you don’t need to escape … Read more
Do curly braces inside json string objects need to be escaped?
No. Curly braces do not have to be escaped in JSON.
how to unescape XML in java
StringEscapeUtils.unescapeXml(xml) (commons-lang, download)
How to escape strings for terminal in Ruby?
Shellwords should work for you 🙂 exec “/usr/bin/mplayer %s” % Shellwords.escape(song.file) In ruby 1.9.x, it looks like you have to require it first require “shellwords” But in ruby 2.0.x, I didn’t have to explicitly require it.
How to use a literal curly brace “{” in XAML?
You can use: ConverterParameter = “{}{0}/{1}” More information can be found here.
Which characters are actually capable of causing SQL injection in MySQL?
An obligatory addendum from 2020: Dealing with characters was proven to be inefficient and obsoleted You must use prepared statements and forget about escaping, “dangerous characters” or any of that business. Using parameterized queries is considered the only proper way to protect from SQL injections, for the reasons provided in the original answer below: Which … Read more
Escaping backslash in string – javascript
For security reasons, it is not possible to get the real, full path of a file, referred through an <input type=”file” /> element. This question already mentions, and links to other Stack Overflow questions regarding this topic. Previous answer, kept as a reference for future visitors who reach this page through the title, tags and … Read more
Why use \x3C instead of < when generating HTML from JavaScript?
When the browser sees </script>, it considers this to be the end of the script block (since the HTML parser has no idea about JavaScript, it can’t distinguish between something that just appears in a string, and something that’s actually meant to end the script element). So </script> appearing literally in JavaScript that’s inside an … Read more