Re: [O] How to escape characters in tables

[Ken.Williams]

On 3/3/11 9:57 AM, "Eric S Fraga" <address@hidden> wrote:

><address@hidden> writes:
>
>>... I've got tables whose cells contain the '|'
>> character (it's a table of regular expressions), and I can't seem to
>> figure out how to escape it so that it doesn't mean a delimiter
>> between cells.  Anyone have advice or a pointer to the docs I can't
>> seem to find?
>
>I guess it all depends on what you want to do with the resulting
>document.  You could always insert a character that looks like the '|'
>character, such as the unicode "LIGHT VERTICAL BAR" (0x2758) character,
>'❘', and I'm sure there are others that could be used... org should
>ignore this character as a table delimiter.


Thanks Eric.  That's not a great solution in this case, because in order
to work in a regex it needs to be the character '|', 0x7C.

Is there some way to put in characters by ASCII code maybe?


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Ken Williams
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Thomson Reuters
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