BB Escape Characters

[Lorian]

Around here you see a lot of spaced out BB code (Eg. [ b ]). I think we should be able to use escape characters, so we don't have to use the spaces. Good idea?

[Argalius]

I don't get it, what do you mean by excape characters?

[Centurion_13]

a character you put in front of some code (in this case a bb tag) which tells the procesor not to process that part essentially making it similar to the code tags except only for a single tag and without all the highlighting etc.

[Lorian]

You are obviously not a programmer Argalius

Here is an example in PHP:

echo "some text with "double" quote";

Would give a parse error

echo "some text with \"double\" quote";

Would output:

some text with "double" quote

[Argalius]

Ok, now I get it, I so this method in a php file once I didn't understand why it was used though, just copied it.

[Lorian]

Well now you know

It gets rather irritating though, when you are writing/reading stuff in real life and you see un-escaped quote characters

[DarkAngelBGE]

How about [\b]This is escaped BB code[\/b] ?

[Lorian]

Sound good, except it should remove the extranious slashes