'~' inside string variable possible?

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Grisu

(Posted 2010) [#1]

Hi!

For a simple update program, I need to pass the file url via a string variable:

Url:string="http://188.165.211.46/~knot/prp/prp_win32.zip"

^BMX seems to has issues with the "~" inside the path.
Error message: Bad escape sequence in string?

Is there a fix for this?

Grisu

Oddball

(Posted 2010) [#2]

I think you need to do a double tilde to get a single tilde in your string literal. Can't check it at the moment but I believe that's correct.

Url:string="http://188.165.211.46/~~knot/prp/prp_win32.zip"

Grisu

(Posted 2010) [#3]

That's quite simple and works. Thanks!

GfK	(Posted 2010) [#4]

Yep - this is documented under Language Reference>>Literals.