Re: Proper quoting of \e ?

On Thu, Apr 25, 2002 at 11:47:16AM -0400, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> > I took care of quoting "`" but recently stumpled about "\e" which I
> > have problems working with. Example (in psql, but in php it is the same):
> >
> > SELECT title from written_by where title like 'An equation of state {\%';
> > title
> > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> > An equation of state {\em \`a la} Carnahan-Starling for a five-dimensional fluid of hard hyperspheres
> > (1 row)
> >
> > works, but if I take one character more (or, later, the entire title),
> > it does not:
> >
> > SELECT title from written_by where title like 'An equation of state {\e%';
>
> I noticed you escaped the % in the first query, but not the second. No
> idea how that effects things.

Well, the "\" is part of the strings to be outputed, so I did not
intend to quota anything. If I replace \ to \\ in my first query, I
get also no result.

Greetings

Helge
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