Re: How to concatenate a backslash to a string

[Perry Smith]

On Nov 27, 2006, at 10:37 AM, Mirko wrote:

> Hello group.
>
> When in *scratch* I try
> (concat "\\" "%")
> I get "\\%"
>
> But what I really want is to get "\%".   (I am trying to TeXify some
> text and convert %->\%, $->\$, etc).
>
> If I try (concat "\" "%") I get a syntax error because the \ is
> escaping the ".

You may be getting what you want.  Notice that "\\" in the scratch  
buffer gives you back "\\" (I'm assuming you are hitting control-J to  
eval and print the line.

I don't think you can get any string in the scratch buffer to print  
like you want it.  It will always have an even number of \'s when  
printed.

Perry Smith ( pedz@easesoftware.com )
Ease Software, Inc. ( http://www.easesoftware.com )

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