On Fri, Jun 29, 2007 at 03:03:42PM -0500, CAMPBELL, BRIAN D (BRIAN) wrote: > Then if you want all chars to be treated literally, then I presume you > want: > \% > To be translated to: > \\\% > So just adding your $esc to the left part of s/// should do the trick, > right?
The \\% is translated to: \\\\% Which leaves the % unescaped. I'll just remove "\" from the input. But thought this might be a reasonably common situation (use % around a search string but not allow % or _ to be special in the user data. -- Bill Moseley [EMAIL PROTECTED]