literal find?

[PA <petite.abeille@...>]

Hello,

I have a little template class which would benefit from "literal" 
matching (e.g. no pattern resolution, just find text "as is"):

http://dev.alt.textdrive.com/file/LW/LWTemplate.lua

The template uses 2 simple constructs: "(v:aVariableName)" and 
"(t:aTemplateName)".

Is there a way to tell the different string function to use a string 
"as is" without having to escape every single magic character?

Alternatively, does anyone have an handy function to automatically 
escape all those magic characters?

Thanks :)

Cheers

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PA, Onnay Equitursay
http://alt.textdrive.com/