escaping
How can I escape a single quote in a single-quote string in Bash?
echo ‘I\’m a student’ does not work. But the following works: echo $’I\’m a student’ From the man page of bash: A single quote may not occur between single quotes, even when preceded by a backslash. …. Words of the form $’string’ are treated specially. The word expands to string, with backslash-escaped characters replaced as … Read more
Groovy/Java split string on parentheses “(“
println “Hello World(1)”.split(“\\(“);
JSON.stringify doesn’t escape?
stringify the object twice does the trick console.log(JSON.stringify(JSON.stringify({“console”:{“free”:false}}))); // “{\”console\”:{\”free\”:false}}”
How to print from the Thermal Printer in Android?
After working for last 7 days i got the right way to get the print and then cut that receipt by the cutter. ESC commands are very important to get the print and other tasks related to the printer. We have to pass those ESC CMD in form of the byte array to the Line … Read more
What does an escaped ampersand mean in Haskell?
It escapes… no character. It is useful to “break” some escape sequences. For instance we might want to express “\12” ++ “3” as a single string literal. If we try the obvious approach, we get “\123” ==> “{” We can however use “\12\&3” for the intended result. Also, “\SOH” and “\SO” are both valid single … Read more
Escaping double-quote in `delims` option of `for /F`
You can use the double quotation mark as a delimiter with syntax like: FOR /F delims^=^”^ tokens^=2 %G IN (‘echo I “want” a “pony”‘) DO @ECHO %G When run on the command line, using tokens^=2 should give you want, and 4 tokens gets you a pony. Applying the technique to your original question, this should … Read more
How does one escape an apostrophe in db2 sql
Use two apostrophes ” to get a single apostrophe on DB2 too, according to the DB2 Survival Guide. Isn’t that working for you?
printing “” using html
Use HTML character references: <html> Should output <html>
How can I match double-quoted strings with escaped double-quote characters?
/”(?:[^\\”]|\\.)*”/ This is almost the same as Cal’s answer, but has the advantage of matching strings containing escape codes such as \n. The ?: characters are there to prevent the contained expression being saved as a backreference, but they can be removed. NOTE: as pointed out by Louis Semprini, this is limited to 32kb texts … Read more