Hi Tamas I actually want to completely remove the "\" before the "$" as I want the following type of operation:
julia> LBP=30 30 julia> string ="LBP =$LBP" "LBP =30" Cheers Will On Sunday, April 26, 2015 at 1:44:05 PM UTC+1, Tamas Papp wrote: > > 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] <javascript:>> > 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 >
