escapelike

escapelike, function

def const pure escapelike(verbatim: text): text

Escapes like operator special characters in verbatim so that verbatim like escapelike(verbatim) is always true.

• verbatim: the raw text to be escaped.

Examples

table T = with
  [| as Verbatim |]
  [| "ABC" |]
  [| "A*C" |]
  [| "[*]" |]
  [| "10%" |]
  [| "\\_" |]

show table "Escaped" with
  T.Verbatim
  escapelike(T.Verbatim) as "Escaped"

This produces the following table:

Errors

The result of escapelike is a text value and is therefore limited to 256 UTF-8 bytes. If the escaped representation would exceed that limit, escapelike fails with an error such as:

escapelike(): “…” escapes to more than 256 UTF-8 bytes.

See also

• like operator