On 2019-08-22, at 09:59:51, Glenn Knickerbocker wrote:
>
> Tiny convenience wishlist item, after being bitten by this repeatedly
> this morning:  STRFIND ASIS to find a string without translating
> underscores and skipping blanks, so the same target can be good for
> STRFIND and STRTOLABEL.
>
> A slightly less tiny item would be options for which characters to skip
> (WordSep?) and translate (Substitute?).
>
The general and correct wish should be for an escape character to protect
any character, even itself, from any special meaning, even as '"' does in
a CP LINEDIT environment.

-- gil

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