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Does nHibernate Escape strings?

From a user report, 'when editing foo. textboxBar allows special characters which produce a warning .net error on save ' textboxBar.Text is assign to an object and saved using nHibernate <property name="TextboxBar" length="255" not-null="false" /> Thinking it may be nHibernate not escaping strings but can't find it in the docs. Does...

HTML Escaping - Reg expressions?

I'd like to HTML escape a specific phrase automatically and logically that is currently a statement with words highlighted with quotation marks. Within the statement, quotation or inch marks could also be used to describe a distance. The phrase could be: Paul said "It missed us by about a foot". In fact it was only about 9". T...

How do I escape a Unicode character in my source code?

I feel incredibly stupid for asking this, but the documentation and Google are giving me no love at all. I have a Unicode character I want to insert into a string literal in the source code of my iPhone app. I know its hex value. What is the proper escape sequence to use? And for that matter, what obvious source of information am I o...

How to get Uri.EscapeDataString to comply with RFC 3986

The Uri class defaults to RFC 2396. For OpenID and OAuth, I need Uri escaping consistent with RFC 3986. From the System.Uri class documentation: By default, any reserved characters in the URI are escaped in accordance with RFC 2396. This behavior changes if International Resource Identifiers or International Domain Name parsing i...

T-SQL : How to escape underscore character in PATINDEX pattern argument ?

Hello, I've found a solution for finding the position of an underscore with PATINDEX : DECLARE @a VARCHAR(10) SET @a = '37_21' PRINT PATINDEX('%_%', @a) -- return 1 (false) PRINT PATINDEX('%!%', REPLACE(@a, '_', '!')) -- return 3 (correct) Have you other ideas ? Like a way to escape the underscore character ...

unEscape JavaScript escaped value in JAVA

in our web service we set a cookie through JavaScript wich we read again in Java (Servlet) however we need to escape the value of the cookie because it may contain illegal characters such as '&' which messes up the cookie. is there a transparent way to escape (JavaScript) and unescape again (JAVA) for this? thanks, Pieter Goddijn ...

Why does this sed command do nothing inside a bash script but work outside?

# join pairs of lines side-by-side (like "paste") sed '$!N;s/\n/ /' The above script comes from the great list of sed one-liners found on sourceforge. I wish to use it in an a bash script but it has no effect if used inside the script. If I pipe the output of the script through it, it joins join pairs of lines side-by-side as descri...

nginx proxy_pass weird url escaping ? (try it)

The original URL is: http://www.sitmo.com/gg/latex/latex2png.2.php?z=100&amp;eq=%5Ccos%20%7Bx%7D%2B%5Csin%20%7Bx%7D%3DCV For some sandbox flash security reason i need to create a proxy on my domain, location /latex_gen/ { proxy_pass http://www.sitmo.com/gg/latex/latex2png.2.php?z=100&amp;eq=; } Which now points to h...

Do I need to do string sanitation before adding to DOM?

In our team we came up with the idea that we have to do sanitizing of strings before added to the DOM. We expected at least that double quotes would be troublesome if used in setAttribute and < and > if added to the node content. The first tests showed something different. We are using innerHTML to set a nodes content. This escapes all ...

escape character via serial

Hi, I'm controlling a serial printer from arduino, now it works perfect but i need to send it escape characters to controll some especific features of the printer. Anybody can show me a way to do that? i need to send "ESC i" thx ...

A good way to escape quotes in Python?

I've tried all manner of Python modules and they either escape too much or in the wrong way. What's the best way you've found to escape quotes (", ') in Python? ...

C# Command-Line Parsing of Quoted Paths and Avoiding Escape Characters

How is it possible to parse command-line arguments that are to be interpreted as paths? args[] contains strings that are automatically joined if they are quoted, e.g.: example.exe one two "three four" args[0] = one args[1] = two args[2] = three four However, args[] will not property parse "C:\Example\" as an argument. Rather, it w...

Official docs for the XML content escaping?

I'm looking for docs on the "official" way to escape stuff in XML. Like the full list of the "&lt;" constructs (whatever they are called) and how to use them. I'm not asking for how to do it, just the official docs (or a good, reliable and correct tutorial). ...

batch for loop with bracket in the command

I have a batch file with the following code: for /f "tokens=*" %%a in ('dir /b /a-d') do ( echo Processing %%a >>%LOG% dtsrun /S(local) /NNotesLoad /A"FilePath:8="%NOTESDIR%\%%a" /AClientID=%1 >>%LOG% echo Deleting %%a >>%LOG% del %%a /q ) This is returning an error message of "/NNotesLoad was unexpected at this time" because the...

Cygwin BASH and ANSI control sequences

Several things here: Can anyone point me at C code to decode ANSI console escape sequences? Is there a way to get Cygwin BASH to emulate a dumb old TTY? Maybe this should be 2 questions. Thanks. ...

How to escape SQL keywords in JPAQL

Hi, I would like to have an entity named "GROUP" in my JPA setup. Now I get problems when I try to perform JPA queries, like "select count(group_.id) from Group group_". JPA thinks this is a misplaced GROUP BY attempt and complains. Is there a way I can escape "Group", or do I have to rename my table? Thx! ...

How to escape special characters in Groovy's SimpleTemplateEngine?

By default, groovy's SimpleTemplateEngine uses <% %> as the scriptlet container. How do I escape these characters if I want to print out <% %>? ...

String inside of a string Ex: pie = "He said "hi"" - C#

In Visual Studio with C#, how can I declare a string inside of a string like this? I saw a few Stack Overflow pages like "Java string inside string to string", but didn't think any of them were the same as my question. Basically if I have "<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"standalone="yes" ?>" How can I declare this, or something l...

Why does the javascript escape function ignore @*/+?

I don't have a use case for this but I was recently asked this very question and w3schools helpfully tells you the characters are ignored but not why. Anyone have any idea why this might be the case? Thanks, David ...

How to ensure xml.dom.minidom can parse its own output?

I'm trying to serialize some data to xml in a way that can be read back. I'm doing this by manually building a DOM via xml.dom.minidom, and writing it to a file using the included writexml method. Of particular interest is how I build the text nodes. I do this by initializing a Text object and then setting its data attribute. I'm not su...