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sunitabeck
Flowing Fount of Yak Knowledge
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 Posted - 04/23/2012 : 10:14:03
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How do you escape square brackets when posting?
I want to tell this poster to use the code tags to post tabular data to make it easier to discern where data for one column ends and data for the next begins.
For the life of me, I can't figure out how to make it display a left square bracket followed by the word "code" followed by a right square bracket.
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robvolk
Most Valuable Yak
USA
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Posted - 04/23/2012 : 10:22:39
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The trick I learned was to enclose the first bracket in a color tag:
[code]
If you reply with quote you'll see the markup. |
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webfred
Flowing Fount of Yak Knowledge
Germany
8513 Posts |
Posted - 04/23/2012 : 10:30:20
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I use [C0DE] (it is a zero instead of the big O) 
No, you're never too old to Yak'n'Roll if you're too young to die. |
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sunitabeck
Flowing Fount of Yak Knowledge
5152 Posts |
Posted - 04/23/2012 : 11:33:22
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Originally posted by robvolk
The trick I learned was to enclose the first bracket in a color tag:
[code]
If you reply with quote you'll see the markup.
Ha! Would have never figured that. Thanks Rob.
Fred, I think I will go with the color thing. Zero is nice, but I wouldn't misunderestimate(*) people's ability to copy that exactly as it is and use it with the zero in place.
(*) Yeah, yeah, I know. But I like that expression. It conveys the meaning so effectively and succinctly, just like a piece of well-written SQL query. |
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visakh16
Very Important crosS Applying yaK Herder
India
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Posted - 04/23/2012 : 12:17:20
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Originally posted by sunitabeck
quote:
Originally posted by robvolk
The trick I learned was to enclose the first bracket in a color tag:
[code]
If you reply with quote you'll see the markup.
Ha! Would have never figured that. Thanks Rob.
Fred, I think I will go with the color thing. Zero is nice, but I wouldn't misunderestimate(*) people's ability to copy that exactly as it is and use it with the zero in place.
(*) Yeah, yeah, I know. But I like that expression. It conveys the meaning so effectively and succinctly, just like a piece of well-written SQL query.
A new word added to my vocabulary
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sunitabeck
Flowing Fount of Yak Knowledge
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Posted - 04/23/2012 : 12:26:42
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A new word added to my vocabulary
It is VERY politically charged though, so I would be very careful using it! I used it here only because I felt confident enough that both Rob and Fred are people who would not take offense regardless of their political persuasions. |
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robvolk
Most Valuable Yak
USA
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Posted - 04/23/2012 : 12:30:46
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Misunderestimate? How is that political? I might complain about poor English, but only if I'm in a really bad mood already.  |
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visakh16
Very Important crosS Applying yaK Herder
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Posted - 04/23/2012 : 12:47:39
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Originally posted by sunitabeck
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A new word added to my vocabulary
It is VERY politically charged though, so I would be very careful using it! I used it here only because I felt confident enough that both Rob and Fred are people who would not take offense regardless of their political persuasions.
Is it because this that you say its politically charged?
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/7809160.stm
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sunitabeck
Flowing Fount of Yak Knowledge
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Posted - 04/23/2012 : 12:50:10
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Originally posted by robvolk
Misunderestimate? How is that political? I might complain about poor English, but only if I'm in a really bad mood already.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bushism
But I honestly like that word. It is an amalgamation of miscalculate, underestimate and many other subtle thoughts. There is nothing that comes close to the expressiveness of misunderestimate! Just like there is no equivalent in English language for "Schadenfreude"
Even though I am a non-political person, I have been trained well by my colleagues - all of them are staunchly on one side of the political spectrum. I won't say which side  |
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Transact Charlie
Flowing Fount of Yak Knowledge
United Kingdom
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Posted - 04/23/2012 : 17:19:51
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I liked it better before I found out that it comes from the big 'W'
Charlie
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madhivanan
Premature Yak Congratulator
India
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Posted - 04/24/2012 : 06:01:32
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Reply with quote and see what I used
[[code]
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webfred
Flowing Fount of Yak Knowledge
Germany
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Posted - 04/24/2012 : 06:55:57
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quote:
Originally posted by madhivanan
Reply with quote and see what I used
[[code]
Madhivanan
Failing to plan is Planning to fail
haha - good!
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sunitabeck
Flowing Fount of Yak Knowledge
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Posted - 04/24/2012 : 07:21:07
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Originally posted by madhivanan
Reply with quote and see what I used
[[code]
Madhivanan
Failing to plan is Planning to fail
What is special about spoiler? Is that a keyword? I tried
[SunitaIsTheBest][[/SunitaIsTheBest][code]
That didn't work. May be it is my conjecture that is wrong. |
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webfred
Flowing Fount of Yak Knowledge
Germany
8513 Posts |
Posted - 04/24/2012 : 07:45:40
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In Madhi's solution there is closing ] missing and because of this the[[code] isn't parsed.
The SPOILER is used to hide the opening bracket.
No, you're never too old to Yak'n'Roll if you're too young to die. |
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How to escape square brackets?
