[Gambas-user] LIKE character scaping

[Benoit Minisini]

On Thursday 09 September 2004 03:19, phiber wrote:
> I can't scape special characters with LIKE, even the help's example
> PRINT "Gambas" LIKE "G[Aa]\*" doesn't work ("Bad character constant in
> string"). Any suggestion?
>

PRINT "Gambas" LIKE "G[Aa]\\*"

Because the '\' character is used for escaping characters in the string, AND 
for escaping special characters in the pattern. So you must double it.

Or you can use this syntax:

PRINT "Gambas" LIKE "G[Aa][*]"

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Benoit Minisini
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