"Lawrence Chitty" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [...]
> There may be better ways to handle this ?. I did a quick search but didn't > come up with any conclusive. You could ask this question on comp.lang.tcl > and see if they have a cleaner suggestion if no-one else here replies. If you don't need variable or command expansion, then the other quoting method can be used: Instead of >> % db eval "insert into t1 values('TEST\\')" use % db eval {insert into t1 values('TEST\\')}