You make an excellent point(s) and I really appreciate your lengthy discussion of this with me. I think I have learned a very important lesson lesson (doesn't always DWIM inside of '').
How would I code it? I don't think for 1 second that I could do a better job than those who faced this problem. But, I would love to try. I would have to see how it is done now. I know in coding, sometimes you paint yourself in a corner and for architecture reasons these things happen as artifacts of the design, and it cannot be changed.
Thanks soooo much for discussing this with me.
Regards,
JamesNC

In reply to Re^8: Escaping multiple escape chars by JamesNC
in thread Escaping multiple escape chars by JamesNC

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