I'm working on some software (spamassassin) that uses the subversion keyword "$LastChangedDate$". In the same file that it's used, I want that string to appear unmodified - not expanded by subversion, exactly as "$LastChangedDate$" instead of something like "$LastChangedDate: 2010-03-30 08:02:18 -0400 (Tue, 30 Mar 2010) $"
Because I want to check for a case where svn keywords aren't getting expanded. Something like (perl): if ('$LastChangedDate$' eq '$LastChangedDate$') But with one of them getting expanded, and the other not. I think it would work to do something like: if ('$LastChangedDate$' eq '$LastChan'.'gedDate$') But I'd prefer to escape the keyword instead. Maybe something like \$LastChangedDate$ ? The reason is that the Ubuntu daily build system on launchpad.net doesn't support subversion keyword expansion: https://bugs.launchpad.net/launchpad/+bug/780916 SpamAssassin bug: https://issues.apache.org/SpamAssassin/show_bug.cgi?id=6605 -- "Go forth, and be excellent to one another." - http://www.jhuger.com/fredski.php http://www.ChaosReigns.com