Filtering Escape characters

[sudha somasundaram]

How do filter the escape characters like '&','\',''','"',.... from the text and display a text free from escape characters .

[Campbell Ritchie]

Try going through it finding the index of every \ and deleting the character one beyond that.

There is probably a much better way to do it with regular expressions, but I can never remember how to use regexes. Anybody else know how to do it?

CR

[Campbell Ritchie]

Just next to your thread, there is this one, about something very similar. Please look at that too. See whether my suggestion works at all.