Multi escape special characters - (Moved)

[DStraathof]

Hi,

I'm searching for a solution to multi-escape the AutoIT special characters, like !, ^, { and }. I've created a Loop through the given string using the help from most of the members here, but it keeps bugging me with re-escaping already escaped characters, like { and }.

Here's what I have up until now:

$sPassword = "W@l}c0me{123)}ab!+25^}"

$sGoodpassword = $sPassword
ConsoleWrite($sGoodpassword & @CRLF)

Local $a_rep[6][2] = [["{", "{{}"], ["}", "{}}"], ["!", "{!}"], ["#", "{#}"], ["+", "{+}"], ["^", "{^}"]]
For $i = 0 To Ubound($a_rep, 1) - 1
    $sGoodpassword = StringRegExpReplace($sGoodpassword, "\Q" & $a_rep[$i][0] & "\E", $a_rep[$i][1])
    ConsoleWrite($sGoodpassword & @CRLF)
Next

It starts with this output (the original string of course):
W@l}c0me{123)}ab!+25^}

It ends with this:
W@l{}}c0me{{{}}123){}}ab{!}{+}25{^}{}}

As you can see, the first few curly braces are re-escaped....

All the help will be appreciated.
Thanks!

[Jos]

Moved to the appropriate forum, as the Developer General Discussion forum very clearly states:

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[Danp2]

Hi,

Can you explain how you intend to use this string? If you're just using the Send function, then you could use the original string and set the optional flag parameter to $SEND_RAW.

Dan

[DStraathof]

Hi,

Yes, I'm using the Send() function to put it in the appropriate application. 

I've changed it to the following:

Send($sPassword, 1) ; The original string....

And it works!

Thank for your quick and clear reply 🙂