Maybe something like julia> s = "my \\ escaped \\\$ \$ string" "my \\ escaped \\\$ \$ string"
julia> replace(s, "\\\$", "\$") "my \\ escaped \$ \$ string" Best, Tamas PS.: Incidentally, is there a way to enter strings with $ without escaping them? Ie something like a non-standard string literal that just ignores the $'s. On Sun, Apr 26 2015, will ship <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi > > I am reading in a text file with special characters e.g. : " Blah is $LBP" > when I read it in to a variable the "$" gets replaced with "\$". But I > actually want the $ non-escaped so that when handling the string variable > it prints the $LBP value. > > Is there anyway of doing this, our just to remove the "\" in the string > without removing the "$" as well? > > Thanks in advance. > > Will
