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03-03-06, 16:28

deltacorvi deltacorvi is offline

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Alias for a word with $ symbol

Hello,

Is there a way to define a variable name for a word with $ symbol in it?
For eg. sample_name = "sam$ple"

Thanks

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03-04-06, 17:03

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I assume you are saying you want to store the characters "sam$ple" in the variable sample_name.

Do that with
# sample_name="sam\$ple"

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03-05-06, 04:55

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OR

you can use
sample_name='sam$ple'

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03-07-06, 14:07

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Thanks! That worked.

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