Re: hash (comment) sign inside string

Eli Zaretskii <[email protected]> Thu, 10 Jan 2008 06:31:08 +0200

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> Date: Wed, 9 Jan 2008 12:34:32 -0800 (PST)
> From: haues1 <[email protected]>
> Cc: 
> 
> I tried the escape character "\\" like:
> 
>        MEXOPTION := abc\\#def
> 
> but it doesn't work. Can somebody please help me?

Why did you double the backslash?  It works for me with one backslash:

  MEXOPTION := abc\#def

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