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From Neanderthelle Jones
Subject Re: Escaping special characters
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Msg-id Pine.LNX.4.64.0903180146090.3317@calypso.view.net.au
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In response to Re: Escaping special characters  (Sam Mason <sam@samason.me.uk>)
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On Tue, 17 Mar 2009, Sam Mason wrote:

> You're putting things in the wrong places!  The "E" says that the
> following literal is using C style escaping.  I.e. you want to say:
>
>   E'Smith \\& Jones'

Thanks.  Now I understand.

Elle.

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