fagersz:

If you don't show the code that you're having a problem with, how can we help? I made my suggestion based on the code you gave us.

Anyway, you *shouldn't* need to escape the special characters in the password. Why don't you present the actual code you're trying to fix, and give us the error messages that you receive, and we can go from there.

...roboticus

When your only tool is a hammer, all problems look like your thumb.