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PostPosted: Fri Nov 28, 2014 3:14 am    Post subject: escaping the | symbol Reply with quote

Hello, I tried using URL Redirect to redirect a bogus URL that contained a | symbol. I tried escaping the character with a backslash: \. However, the resulting \| still treats the | like an OR, not a character. How do I succeed in escaping the pipe symbol? Or is this a problem with my very old version of abyss x2 v2.8?
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PostPosted: Sun Nov 30, 2014 10:13 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

This isn't too hard to achieve. I'm using X2 v2.8 as well.
Here's the code I used.

Virtual path regex:
Code:
^/[^\|]*\|[^\|]*$


It catches any URL with the pipe in it (including JUST the pipe).


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PostPosted: Sun Apr 24, 2022 10:30 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

If anyone is still looking for how to do this, you can read this:
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\0dd character with octal code 0dd
\ddd character with octal code ddd, or back reference
\o{ddd..} character with octal code ddd..
\xhh character with hex code hh
\x{hhh..} character with hex code hhh.. (non-JavaScript mode)
\uhhhh character with hex code hhhh (JavaScript mode only)

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(4) \u matches a lower case "u" character unless it is followed by four
hexadecimal digits, in which case the hexadecimal number defines the
code point to match. By default, \u causes a compile time error (Perl
uses it to upper case the following character).

That means you can do this to escape the | character:
Quote:
\x{7C}
or
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\u007C

0x7C is the hex byte that represents the | character.
0x5C is the one for \ (if you need it).

You can use any hex editor to find the hex value for a character.

More details:
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Constraints on character values

Invalid Unicode codepoints are the range 0xd800 to 0xdfff (the so-
called "surrogate" codepoints), and 0xffef.
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