Must be a way: escaping filter patterns

[David Bovill]

Thanks Jim - good to confirm that there is no way to escape chars for filter
expressions. I guess this is the sort of thing that should be posted as a
note to the dictionary.

2009/5/2 Jim Ault <jimaultwins at yahoo.com>

> The technique I have used in the past is to do a
>
> replace "[" with "†" in blockOfLines
> replace "]" with "^" in blockOfLines
> filter blockOfLines without "tr††*^^"
> --and in case there are kept lines that had the '[]' chars
> replace "†" with "[" in blockOfLines
> replace "^" with "]" in blockOfLines