How should I escape characters inside this LIKE query?

Question

I have a field in one of my tables that contains this string:

!\"#¤%&/()=?´`?=)(/&%¤#\"!\\\'\\\'\"\'

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Answer 1

Are you using PHP? If so, you may try something like:

$a = mysql_real_escape_string('%!"#¤%&/()=?´`?=)(/&%¤#"!\'\'"\'%');
$query_string = "SELECT * FROM mytable WHERE `column` LIKE '$a'";

Would that solve your problem?