passing a string with the & character as an argument

[jic]

James Miller Wrote:

> On 29 February 2012 20:21, Jos van Uden <user at domain.invalid> wrote:
> > On 29-2-2012 7:06, James Miller wrote:
> >>
> >> On 29 February 2012 18:51, jic<cabrera at wrc.xerox.com> Â wrote:
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> Greetings!
> >>>
> >>> I have this program,
> >>>
> >>> import std.process : system;
> >>> import std.stdio;
> >>> int main(char[][] args)
> >>> {
> >>> Â char[] cmd;
> >>>
> >>> Â for (int i=1;i<args.length;i++)
> >>> Â {
> >>> Â  Â cmd ~= args[i] ~ " ";
> >>> Â }
> >>> Â writefln(cmd);
> >>> Â return(1);
> >>> }
> >>>
> >>> if I compile it and run it this way,
> >>>
> >>> test 1! 2@ 3& Â 4#
> >>>
> >>> the result is
> >
> >
> >>
> >> If you are on Windows, then I don't know why this is happening.
> >
> >
> > On windows the ampersand also has a special meaning. In that case
> > try the carrot ^ to escape
> >
> > test 1! 2@ 3^& Â 4#
> >
> > Jos
> >
> 
> Today I Learned that windows has insane escaping.
> 
Me too.  I tried escaping it with the wonder-working \, but that didn't work.  This does work.  Weird stuff...  Thanks all.