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How to escape ${expr} in JET templates? [message #492568]

Tue, 20 October 2009 15:09

Asha Ramegowda
Messages: 71
Registered: July 2009

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Hi,

We need to have some placeholders in the form of ${place holder} in our template files. But JET recognizes the ${some name} as a variable. Is there any way to escape this string or the $ symbol in JET?

Thank you,

Asha.

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Re: How to escape ${expr} in JET templates? [message #492578 is a reply to message #492568]

Tue, 20 October 2009 15:46

Paul Elder
Messages: 844
Registered: July 2009

Senior Member

Asha:

${ '${place holder}' }

That is, put the ${ ... } text into quotes within another ${ ... }.

You can use double or single quotes.

If you need to escape a quote, double it up:

Example: To embed ${"hello world"} in the template output, do

${ "${""hello world""}" }

Or, you could break it up like this:

${ "${" }"hello world"}

I confess that not of these look particularly readable.

Quoting strategy shamelessly stolen from JSP/EL

Paul

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