Questions tagged [escaping]
Escaping is the process of applying an alternate meaning to a character or set of characters.
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How to replace a character by a newline in Vim
I'm trying to replace each , in the current file by a new line:
:%s/,/\n/g
But it inserts what looks like a ^@ instead of an actual newline. The file is not in DOS mode or anything.
What should I ...
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What characters do I need to escape in XML documents?
What characters must be escaped in XML documents, or where could I find such a list?
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Saving UTF-8 texts with json.dumps as UTF-8, not as a \u escape sequence
Sample code (in a REPL):
import json
json_string = json.dumps("ברי צקלה")
print(json_string)
Output:
"\u05d1\u05e8\u05d9 \u05e6\u05e7\u05dc\u05d4"
The problem: it's not human ...
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Insert HTML into view from AngularJS controller
Is it possible to create an HTML fragment in an AngularJS controller and have this HTML shown in the view?
This comes from a requirement to turn an inconsistent JSON blob into a nested list of id: ...
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HTML-encoding lost when attribute read from input field
I’m using JavaScript to pull a value out from a hidden field and display it in a textbox. The value in the hidden field is encoded.
For example,
<input id='hiddenId' type='hidden' value='chalk &...
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Escape string for use in Javascript regex [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Is there a RegExp.escape function in Javascript?
I am trying to build a javascript regex based on user input:
function FindString(input) {
var reg = new RegExp('' + input ...
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Escape @ character in razor view engine
I am creating a sample ASP.NET MVC 3 site using Razor as view engine. The razor syntax starts with @ character e.g. @RenderBody(). If I write @test on my cshtml page it gives me parse error
CS0103: ...
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Escaping HTML strings with jQuery
Does anyone know of an easy way to escape HTML from strings in jQuery? I need to be able to pass an arbitrary string and have it properly escaped for display in an HTML page (preventing JavaScript/...
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How do I escape ampersands in XML so they are rendered as entities in HTML?
I have some XML text that I wish to render in an HTML page. This text contains an ampersand, which I want to render in its entity representation: &.
How do I escape this ampersand in the ...
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Can I escape a double quote in a verbatim string literal?
In a verbatim string literal (@"foo") in C#, backslashes aren't treated as escapes, so doing \" to get a double quote doesn't work. Is there any way to get a double quote in a verbatim string literal?
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How to Git stash pop specific stash in 1.8.3?
I just upgraded Git. I'm on Git version 1.8.3.
This morning I tried to unstash a change 1 deep in the stack.
I ran git stash pop stash@{1} and got this error.
fatal: ambiguous argument 'stash@1': ...
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How can I grep for a string that begins with a dash/hyphen?
I want to grep for the string that starts with a dash/hyphen, like -X, in a file, but it's confusing this as a command line argument.
I've tried:
grep "-X"
grep \-X
grep '-X'
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How can I selectively escape percent (%) in Python strings?
I have the following code
test = "have it break."
selectiveEscape = "Print percent % in sentence and not %s" % test
print(selectiveEscape)
I would like to get the output:
Print percent % in ...
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Escape a string for a sed replace pattern
In my bash script I have an external (received from user) string, which I should use in sed pattern.
REPLACE="<funny characters here>"
sed "s/KEYWORD/$REPLACE/g"
How can I ...
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How to escape indicator characters (colon and hyphen) in YAML
In a config file, I have a key to which I wish to assign a URL. The problem is that YAML interprets : and - characters as either creating mappings or lists, so it has a problem with the line
url: http:...
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Pass a PHP variable to a JavaScript variable
What is the easiest way to encode a PHP string for output to a JavaScript variable?
I have a PHP string which includes quotes and newlines. I need the contents of this string to be put into a ...
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How to use a variable inside a regular expression
I'd like to use a variable inside a regex, how can I do this in Python?
TEXTO = sys.argv[1]
if re.search(r"\b(?=\w)TEXTO\b(?!\w)", subject, re.IGNORECASE):
# Successful match
else:
#...
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How to escape text for regular expression in Java?
Does Java have a built-in way to escape arbitrary text so that it can be included in a regular expression? For example, if my users enter "$5", I'd like to match that exactly rather than a &...
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How to execute a bash command stored as a string with quotes and asterisk [duplicate]
I try to execute the following command :
mysql AMORE -u username -ppassword -h localhost -e "SELECT host FROM amoreconfig"
I store it in a string :
cmd="mysql AMORE -u username -ppassword -h ...
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How do I properly escape quotes inside HTML attributes?
I have a drop down on a web page which is breaking when the value string contains a quote.
The value is "asd, but in the DOM it always appears as an empty string.
I have tried every way I know to ...
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How to properly escape a double quote in CSV?
I have a line like this in my CSV:
"Samsung U600 24"","10000003409","1","10000003427"
Quote next to 24 is used to express inches, while the quote just next to that quote closes the field. I'm ...
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How can I escape square brackets in a LIKE clause?
I am trying to filter items with a stored procedure using like. The column is a varchar(15). The items I am trying to filter have square brackets in the name.
For example: WC[R]S123456.
If I do a ...
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Which characters need to be escaped when using Bash?
Is there any comprehensive list of characters that need to be escaped in Bash? Can it be checked just with sed?
In particular, I was checking whether % needs to be escaped or not. I tried
echo "h%h" ...
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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 src='myimage.jpg'>
However, when I use JavaScript to insert the strings into ...
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What is the recommended way to escape HTML symbols in plain Java?
Is there a recommended way to escape <, >, " and & characters when outputting HTML in plain Java code? (Other than manually doing the following, that is).
String source = "The less than ...
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How do I use spaces in the Command Prompt?
How can I use spaces in the Windows Command Line?
cmd /C C:\Program Files (x86)\WinRar\Rar.exe a D:\Hello 2\File.rar D:\Hello 2\*.*
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Convert XmlDocument to String
Here is how I'm currently converting XMLDocument to String
StringWriter stringWriter = new StringWriter();
XmlTextWriter xmlTextWriter = new XmlTextWriter(stringWriter);
xmlDoc.WriteTo(xmlTextWriter)...
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Escape quotes in JavaScript
I'm outputting values from a database (it isn't really open to public entry, but it is open to entry by a user at the company -- meaning, I'm not worried about XSS).
I'm trying to output a tag like ...
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How to escape double quotes in a title attribute
I am trying to use a string that contains double quotes in the title attribute of an anchor. So far I tried these:
<a href=".." title="Some \"text\"">Some text</a>
<!-- The title looks ...
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PHP sprintf escaping %
I want the following output:-
About to deduct 50% of € 27.59 from your Top-Up account.
when I do something like this:-
$variablesArray[0] = '€';
$variablesArray[1] = 27.59;
$stringWithVariables = ...
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Escape single quote character for use in an SQLite query
I wrote the database schema (only one table so far), and the INSERT statements for that table in one file. Then I created the database as follows:
$ sqlite3 newdatabase.db
SQLite version 3.4.0
Enter &...
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How can I escape a single quote?
How can I escape a ' (single quote) in HTML?
This is where I'm trying to use it:
<input type='text' id='abc' value='hel'lo'>
The result for the above code is "hel" populated in the ...
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How to escape hash character in URL
How can I escape the # hash sign (sometimes known as number sign or pound sign) sent in the query string of a URL?
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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? I would like to replace tabs, newlines, etc. with their escape sequences.
If this code:
Console.WriteLine(...
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Escaping single quote in PHP when inserting into MySQL [duplicate]
I have a perplexing issue that I can't seem to comprehend...
I have two SQL statements:
The first enters information from a form into the database.
The second takes data from the database entered ...
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How to escape a JSON string containing newline characters using JavaScript?
I have to form a JSON string in which a value is having new line character. This has to be escaped and then posted using AJAX call. Can any one suggest a way to escape the string with JavaScript. I am ...
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How do I escape a single quote ( ' ) in JavaScript? [duplicate]
UPDATE:
I want to give an updated answer to this question. First, let me state if you're attempting to accomplish what I have below, I recommend that you manage events by adding event listeners ...
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How can you escape the @ character in javadoc?
How can I escape the @ symbol in javadoc? I am trying to use it inside a {@code} tag, which is inside <pre> tags.
I already tried the html escape @ sequence, but that didn't work.
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What is the HtmlSpecialChars equivalent in JavaScript?
Apparently, this is harder to find than I thought it would be. And it even is so simple...
Is there a function equivalent to PHP's htmlspecialchars built into JavaScript? I know it's fairly easy to ...
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Why shouldn't `'` be used to escape single quotes?
As stated in, When did single quotes in HTML become so popular? and Jquery embedded quote in attribute, the Wikipedia entry on HTML says the following:
The single-quote character ('), when used to ...
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how to parse a JSON String with jq (or other alternatives)?
I'm trying to get jq to parse a JSON structure like:
{
"a" : 1,
"b" : 2,
"c" : "{\"id\":\"9ee ...\",\"parent\":\"abc...\"}\n"
}
That is, an element in the JSON is a string with escaped json.
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How to escape apostrophe (a single quote) in MySql?
The MySQL documentation says that it should be \'. However, both scite and mysql shows that '' works. I saw that and it works. What should I do?
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How to escape @ characters in Subversion managed file names?
For many Subversion operations, appending the '@' symbol to the end of a file or URL argument allows you to target a specific revision of that file. For example, "svn info test.txt@1234" will give ...
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Escaping ampersand character in SQL string [duplicate]
I am trying to query a certain row by name in my sql database and it has an ampersand. I tried to set an escape character and then escape the ampersand, but for some reason this isn't working and I'm ...
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How do I escape ampersands in batch files?
How do I escape ampersands in a batch file (or from the
Windows command line) in order to use the start command to
open web pages with ampersands in the URL?
Double quotes will not work with start; ...
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How should I escape strings in JSON?
When creating JSON data manually, how should I escape string fields? Should I use something like Apache Commons Lang's StringEscapeUtilities.escapeHtml, StringEscapeUtilities.escapeXml, or should I ...
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Process escape sequences in a string in Python
Sometimes when I get input from a file or the user, I get a string with escape sequences in it. I would like to process the escape sequences in the same way that Python processes escape sequences in ...
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How do I escape double quotes in attributes in an XML String in T-SQL?
Pretty simple question - I have an attribute that I would like to have double quotes in. How do I escape them? I've tried
\"
""
\\"
And I've made the @xml variable both xml type and varchar(max) ...
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Escape characters with special meaning to the regex engine in PHP
Is there a PHP function that can escape RegEx patterns to prevent them from being applied when used inside another RegEx pattern?
I am looking for something along the lines of the C# Regex.Escape() ...
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How do I escape reserved words used as column names? MySQL/Create Table
I am generating tables from classes in .NET and one problem is a class may have a field name key which is a reserved MySQL keyword. How do I escape it in a create table statement? (Note: The other ...
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