VB Script ignore special character

Question

any idea how to ignore a < or > in a VBS string ie:

strEx = "<10 days"
response.write(strEx)

Thanks

score 4 · Accepted Answer · answered Nov 14 '11 at 12:56

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You should try thing instead:-

Response.Write(Server.HTMLEncode(strEx))

This will correctly escape characters that have meaning to HTML.

answered Nov 14 '11 at 12:56

AnthonyWJones

score 1 · Answer 2 · answered Nov 14 '11 at 12:23

1

By ignore, do you mean remove? If so try this:

strEx = replace("<10 days", "<", "")

Or if you'd like to write your string on to a webpage, you can encode the < to have it outputted correctly:

strEx = replace("<10 days", "<", "&lt;")

answered Nov 14 '11 at 12:23

Rory McCrossan

Thanks, Ideally I need to leave the string as it is. I've thought of using replace but I wondered if there's a way of escaping or ignoring the < character or using something like double quotes (obviously tried that and it doesn't work). – Bobney Nov 14 '11 at 12:56

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