well, replacing the "%" with "Chr(37)" did the trick, but it sure is ugly. -----Original Message----- From: thelist-admin at lists.evolt.org [mailto:thelist-admin at lists.evolt.org]On Behalf Of Scott Dexter Sent: Friday, November 17, 2000 5:08 PM To: 'thelist at lists.evolt.org' Subject: RE: [thelist] ASP: Escaping stuff ya might have to escape at least one of them, I dunno off the top of my head (the vbscript engine can be a little brute force sometimes) sgd -- work: http://www.ti3.com/ non: http://thinksafely.org/ > -----Original Message----- > From: Tab Alleman [mailto:talleman at autobex.com] > I want to literally store the <% %> characters in the string, > but when ASP > gets to %>, it stops scripting and gives me dumb looks. Is > there a way to > escape those characters or do I need to use Chr(xxx) to get > them into my > string? --------------------------------------- For unsubscribe and other options, including the Tip Harvester and archive of TheList go to: http://lists.evolt.org Workers of the Web, evolt !