Andrei POPESCU wrote: ... pre processing for that one character using a different delimiter and then processing the results of that with the original delimiter seems to cover everything i'm worried about. :)
> One trick to avoid this problems is to use a different delimiter, e.g. '|'. > > According to the manual[1][2] any other character is accepted. > > [1] https://www.gnu.org/software/sed/manual/sed.html#The-_0022s_0022-Command > [2] as with many (most? all?) GNU programs the full documentation is=20 > available only as a Texinfo manual, not a man page. yeah... songbird