escaping

In my PowerShell script, I'm running Select-String over a number of files, looking for a string passed into it via a variable ($id): foreach ($file in (ls "path\to\files")) { $found = $false $found = Select-String -Path $file $id -Quiet if ($found) { break } } Unfortunately, the $id variable sometimes things like "\C" or "\T", which Select-String tries to interpret as escape sequences. These are not valid escape sequences, so Select-String throws an error. They are not intended to be escape sequences (e.g., it could be part of a file path such as "C:\Test"), so how can I prevent PowerShell

I am passing some JSON to a server via a script (not mine) that accepts the JSON as a string. Some of the content of the JSON contains single quotes so I want to ensure that any single quotes are escaped before being passed to the script. I have tried the following: > irb > 1.9.3p194 :001 > x = "that's an awesome string" > => "that's an awesome string" > 1.9.3p194 :002 > x.sub("'", "\'") > => "that's an awesome string" > 1.9.3p194 :003 > x.sub("'", "\\'") > => "thats an awesome strings an awesome string" but can't seem to get the syntax right. The reason sub("'", "\'") does not work is because

I can't find anything in the documentation about val() and prop() and escaping. Are they intended to escape values when used as setters? Not really. .val() is used to set a form field's value attribute, so escaping isn't really necessary there. You'll be setting the value via the DOM, so it's not like you're constructing HTML through string concatenation. .prop() , on the other hand, doesn't even interact with attributes at all - just DOM properties, so you don't need to working about HTML escaping their either. Edit: for the sake of clarification, I'm assuming that you're asking this because

I'm looking for the db2 equivalent of T-SQL's: INSERT INTO People (Surname) VALUES ('O''Hara'); Use two apostrophes '' to get a single apostrophe on DB2 too, according to the DB2 Survival Guide . Isn't that working for you? Brabster is correct. You are supposed to escape ' with '' So to insert O'Hara , you will have to write O''Hara Excerpt from: http://www.michael-thomas.com/tech/db2/db2_survival_guide.htm Escape character. To insert a single quote, use 2 single quotes ( '' ). To insert pet's use the following pet''s. Example: insert into MYTABLE (question,answer) values ('What is your pet''s

The title is more complicated than it has to be, here's the problem query. SELECT * FROM query.multi WHERE queries=" SELECT * FROM html WHERE url='http://www.stumbleupon.com/url/http://www.guildwars2.com' AND xpath='//li[@class=\"listLi\"]/div[@class=\"views\"]/a/span'; SELECT * FROM xml WHERE url='http://services.digg.com/1.0/endpoint?method=story.getAll&link=http://www.guildwars2.com'; SELECT * FROM json WHERE url='http://api.tweetmeme.com/url_info.json?url=http://www.guildwars2.com'; SELECT * FROM xml WHERE url='http://api.facebook.com/restserver.php?method=links.getStats&urls=http://www

We're building a Symfony 2 application that sends some data from controller to view: Controller $user = array( 'configuration' => array( 'levels' => array( 'warning' => 0.05, 'danger' => 0.10, ), ), ); return $this->render( 'MyWebsiteBundle:Core:searchResults.html.twig', array( 'userJSON' => json_encode($user) ) ); View <script language="javascript"> user = $.parseJSON("{{ userJSON }}"); </script> Result On dev the result looks like this and works as expected: user = $.parseJSON("\x7B\x22configuration\x22\x3A\x7B\x22levels\x22\x3A\x7B\x22warning\x22\x3A0.05,\x22danger\x22\x3A0.1\x7D\x7D\x7D");