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I want to output some braces in a java MessageFormat. For example I know the following does not work: MessageFormat.format(" public {0} get{1}() {return {2};}\n\n", type, upperCamel, lowerCamel); Is there a way of escaping the braces surrounding "return {2}"? You can put them inside single quotes e.g. '{'return {2};'}' See here for more details. Bombe Wow. Surprise! The documentation for MessageFormat knows the answer: Within a String , "''" represents a single quote. A QuotedString can contain arbitrary characters except single quotes; the surrounding single quotes are removed. An

I've got some Python code that will automatically print a set of data in a nice column format, including putting in the appropriate ASCII escape sequences to color various pieces of the data for readability. I eventually end up with each line being represented as a list, with each item being a column that is space-padded so that the same columns on each line are always the same length. Unfortunately when I actually go to print this, not all the columns line up. I suspect this is to do with the ASCII escape sequences - because the len function doesn't seem to recognize these: >>> a = '\x1b[1m0

The printf() documentation says that if someone wants to print % in C, he can use: printf("%%") Why is it not: printf("\%") as with other special characters? Because the % is handled by printf . It is not a special character in C, but printf itself treats it differently. The backslash is processed by the compiler when interpreting the source text of the program. So the common result is that the source text "\%" produces a string containing ”%”. The format string is interpreted by the printf routine, so it processes the characters passed to it. By this time, the backslash is no longer present,

I currently have a Combobox like the following: //XAML <ComboBox> <ComboBoxItem> Awake & Alive</ComboBoxItem> </ComboBox> This raises an error: Entity references or sequences beginning with an ampersand '&' must be terminated with a semicolon ';'. I assume I am missing an escape sequence of some sort to allow me to use a &. How can I set the content of this comboboxitem to include a &? Use & to encode the ampersand. //XAML <ComboBox> <ComboBoxItem> Awake & Alive</ComboBoxItem> </ComboBox> The short answer is to use & to encode an ampersand. See also Entities: Handling Special Content on XML

This question already has an answer here: Double quote in JavaScript string 4 answers I've got a question about escaping characters in JavaScript that I'm hoping you may be able to help with. Say if I have the following JavaScript code: document.write("<img src=\"http://www.google.com\" />"); Now in the example above, you can see that I have begun the document.write with double quotes " and hence why I need to escape the quotes within the < img src="" /> to ensure that JavaScript still thinks that it's a string. But in the below example you can see I have used a single quote ' to begin the

I know there are already many questions like mine but I found no answer which works in Java. So I write a new question. I have text files with content like this: key1 = "This is a \"test\" text with escapes using '\\' characters"; key2 = 'It must work with \'single\' quotes and "double" quotes'; I need a regular expression which matches the values in the double-quotes (or single-quotes). This regular expression must support the escaped quotes and escaped backslashes. The regular expression must work with Java standard Pattern/Matcher classes. Try this regular expression: '([^\\']+|\\([btnfr"'\