On Fri, Jun 29, 2007 at 04:01:25PM +0100, Raf wrote:
> >But if $search_pattern is '\%' then you end up with '\\%'.
>
> If you have a user defined search pattern which is \%, then you can assume
> that user wanted to match against the '%' litteral, right? So \\% is what
> you'd want, isn't it?
No, I don't want to give the user access to the % or _. I'm using
'%' . $user_string . '%'
but I don't want $user_string to have any special characters. If
$user_string includes \ or % or _ I want them to be literal, without
special meaning.
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Bill Moseley
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