For some reason, the above answer didn’t work for me. For those like me who come after, here is what I found. I was expecting a single backslash to escape the bracket, however, you must use two if you have the pattern stored in a string. The first backslash escapes the second one into the … Read more
Simple. Change line 6 to remove the spaces inside the brackets: $d = “${Env:ProgramFiles(x86)}” # LINE 6 (NO spaces inside brackets) You just have to wrap the variable that contains () with {}. No spaces inside the brackets.
You don’t need to escape the ‘ character in a String (wrapped in “), and you don’t have to escape a ” character in a char (wrapped in ‘).
The answer by @Michael gave me an idea… not a very pretty idea, but it seems to work, at least on your example: Try to parse the JSON string, and if it fails, look for the character where it failed in the exception string1 and replace that character. while True: try: result = json.loads(s) # … Read more
I prefer to avoid scriptlets in the middle of my page and was having to use them (increasingly often) to escape strings when used in JavaScript code. I wanted an Expression Language (EL) way of escaping the strings. I created a very small custom taglib that I use for just this purpose: Utilities.java: package com.mycom.taglibs; … Read more
You can surround literal strings with quotes, which for longer strings is probably easier and a bit more readable than escaping every character with a backslash: str = String.Format(“{0:MMM d ‘at’ m:mm”+yearStr+”}”, dt); See Custom Date and Time Format Strings in MSDN Library (search for “Literal string delimiter”). (And did you mean h:mm instead of … Read more
There is no way around it, you have to escape the values properly, or the HTML can’t be parsed properly. You can’t use Javascript to correct the code after it is parsed, because then it has already failed. Your example with proper HTML encoding would be: <p class=”example” data-example=”She said "<abbr title="What The F***">WTF</abbr>" on … Read more
\v is \x0b: >>> ‘\v’ ‘\x0b’ but the string literal representation in Python is using the \x0b notation instead. The Python string literal representation only ever uses \n, \r and \t, everything else that is not a printable ASCII character is represented using the \xhh notation instead. \x0c is a form feed; it forces a … Read more
You need to escape your backslash in the replace in order to get it printed. Try replace(‘”‘,’\\”‘)
You should use single quotes on the value parameter, ie: value=”<%=request.getParameter(“userName”)%>” or set the org.apache.jasper.compiler.Parser.STRICT_QUOTE_ESCAPING parameter to false as described here: http://blogs.sourceallies.com/2009/10/strict-quote-escaping-in-tomcat/