Re: escaping square brackets?

[Joe Hourcle <oneiros@dcr.net>]

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On Tue, 9 Feb 1999, Giles Constant wrote:

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> 
> SURELY this is in the faq?  (ok, I'll stop calling you Shirley:))
> 
> Sorry if this _is_ in the faq or the documentation, but after 4 hours of
> looking I still haven't found it.
> 
> All I want is to have a regular expression involving square brackets
> (basically the atom '[a-z]') and use this to control the flow of the
> script, but I can't work out what the escape sequence or command to
> achieve this is.
> 
> Failing that, I know I can call perl with "interpolate=0", but I want to
> control an [if] statement with this, eg.  [if explicit][condition], but
> then this will interpolate by default.
> 
> How would I put a single '[' into the html document anyway?

I don't know the first one, but for the second, you could use :

	&#91;  and &#93;

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Joe Hourcle
Digital Crescent, Inc.

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