Escaping unnecessarily is a good way to confuse the next programmer to maintain your code.

As somebody who has done a lot of code maintenance on other folks code I would have to say that I never been confused by an escaped character.

There are plenty of other sins out there that can cause confusion when maintaining code, believe me. If "unnecessary" escaping was the worst thing I ever saw I'd still have a full head of hair!

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Peter L. Berghold --- Peter@Berghold.Net
"Those who fail to learn from history are condemned to repeat it."