If you need it for running a SQL query using the LIKE operator...the following worked for me:
sqlstring = "SELECT * FROM tableX WHERE fieldY LIKE '%"+something[0]+"%'" On Wednesday, February 12, 2014 12:28:35 PM UTC-5, Alejandro Garza Gracia wrote: > > Hello, I've looked through the documentation and the questions asked but I > haven't been able to escape the '%' percent character in a string. > > I've tried using '\%' and '%%' in a label string, but none has worked so > far. > > I'd appreciate the help. > -- Resources: - http://web2py.com - http://web2py.com/book (Documentation) - http://github.com/web2py/web2py (Source code) - https://code.google.com/p/web2py/issues/list (Report Issues) --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "web2py-users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to web2py+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.