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Jerome Vuarand wrote:
> 2008/10/2 Xruptor <derkyle@gmail.com>:
>> This is why I would like to strip all magic characters from a string before
>> parsing ;)  Help is always appreciated.
> 
> function escape(str)
>   return (str:gsub("%W", "%%%1"))
> end

What Jerome said.
Of course, if you'd actually stayed connected to IRC rather than
quitting when your question wasn't answered /immediately/, you might
have had the answer even earlier.
	Ben