escaping

I want to enter string " -< " in strings.xml file in eclipse, the string has character < and I couldn't add it to xml file without error! I even tried to escaping by \ character: <string name="search_target_arrow"> -\< </string> or enclosing it between "" as below: <string name="search_target_arrow">" -< "</string> but none worked. Then finally with help of kind users here I found that this would be the correct way to enter such chars in xml: <string name="search_target_arrow"> -&lt; </string> but now when I get this resource in my code: getResources().getString(R.string.search_target_arrow);

Every time a POST is made I get escaped characters. \ -> \\ ' -> \' " -> \" I have a multistep form, which transmits the data from one form to another. I save the values with prepared statments in the database. The values in the database currently look like Paul\'s House . User should have the possiblity to use single and double quotes in their string. This is a simple example demonstrating the escaping effect: <?php echo $_POST['value']; ?> <form action="form.php" method="post" enctype="multipart/form-data"> <input type="hidden" name="value" value="Paul's House"> <input type="submit" value=

Possible Duplicate: Enter “&” symbol into a text Label in Windows Forms? Is there any property for a label to display '&' in C#? I'm trying to display customer names in a label. When there is any '&' symbol in the name, it's getting displayed as '_'. For example, A&B XXX is getting displayed as AB with B underlined. Instead of hardcoding, is there any way to display & symbols as received by means of setting any property? The Label control can't display the control characters encoded by escape sequences, and there's no property that controls that. The reason is it draws its text using standard

How do i escape double quotes in string in Grails : string = " "12.10 On-Going Submission of ""Made Up"" Samples." " I have tried alot of methods //text : artifact.text.encodeAsJavaScript(), //text: artifact.text.encodeAsHTML(), //text: StringEscapeUtils.escapeJava((String)artifact.text), //got an error when doing this //text: artifact.text.replaceAll("\" "," \\\\" "), None of the above worked for me. You can refer to question posted by for understanding myproblem here and here too the error (json stops at "\\"12.10 On-Going Submission o\\"\\""): 014-09-25 12:15:21,869 [http-bio-8080-exec-3]

In a bash script, I need to pass a parameter to another program. The parameter has spaces in so must be quoted. Everything works fine in this simple case 1: /bin/echo /some/command --param="abc def ghi" Output: /some/command --param=abc def ghi The problem begins if I want to make the bash script more sophisticated, somehow the parameter value has changed in case 2 and 3: FOO="ghi" DEFAULTS="--param=\"abc def $FOO\"" /bin/echo /some/command $DEFAULTS DEFAULTS='--param="abc def '$FOO'"' /bin/echo /some/command $DEFAULTS Output: /some/command --param="abc def ghi" /some/command --param="abc def

How should I escape a string that will be going into a Javascript String? URLEncode(X)? str_replace("'","\'",X)? use json_encode so you can do $page_params = array( 'user_logged_in' => $suer->IsActive(), 'some_string' => "sajdhf\"test''z\'\fsdf" 'ts' => time() ); $page_params = json_encode($page_params); then in your template you can just go var page_params = <?php echo $page_params ?>; witch would produce var page_params = {"user_logged_in":false,"some_string":"sajdhf\"test''z\'\fsdf","ts":2452346543} this way you can set multiple variables to 1 string and escaping is done by the Json Library