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Escape User Macro

Added by David Peterson [CustomWare], last edited by Jonathan Nolen on Apr 12, 2006

Introduction

Due to the way the Confluence renderer works, outputting a sequence of two '\' characters right next to each other is nigh-on impossible. It can be done by using a {noformat} macro (mostly), but it will force it into it's own paragraph. The 'escape' macro lets you get around this problem.

Instructions

The way I got it to work was to create my own 'escape' macro that converted the sequence '*', where '' is any single character, in to ''. It looks like this in the macro:

Step 1: Create a new User Macro

  1. Go to the Administration section and create a new User Macro.
  2. Call it 'escape'.
  3. Enter the following as the macro content: 
    ${body.replaceAll("\\(.)", "$1")}
  4. Save it.

Step 2: Use the macro

In the page, it use it like this:

{escape}\\\\server\\share\\dir\\\%variable\%{escape}

When rendered, it looks like this:

\\server\share\dir\%variable%

Except that you can have the value inline in any regular paragraph.

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Comments (2)

 

  1. Sep 18, 2007

    James Mortimer says:

    why not use a {norender} macro? Create a user macro with this content ${genera...

    why not use a {norender} macro? Create a user macro with this content

    ${generalUtil.htmlEncode($body)}

    now,

    {norender}\\server\share\dir\%variable%{norender}

    simply gives

    \\server\share\dir\%variable%

  2. Aug 16, 2006

    William W. Lin says:

    I found on a separate thread that you can do double backslashes without using no...

    I found on a separate thread that you can do double backslashes without using noformat or macro tricks by simply using the ASCII code. So this raw Wiki markup:

    \\server\share\dir\%variable%

    shows up as:
    \\server\share\dir\%variable%

    (note that I had to use the ASCII code before the %, because the backslash acts as an escape character before percentage signs)