How to escape colon (:) in $PATH on UNIX?

Question

I need to parse the $PATH environment variable in my application. So I was wondering what escape characters would be valid in $PATH. I created a te

Answer 1

According to http://tldp.org/LDP/abs/html/special-chars.html single quotes should preserve all special characters, so without trying it, I would think that '/bin:d' would work (with)in $PATH.