On 20/12/2023 19:59, dvint dvint@xxxxxxxxx wrote:

I have twist on this question.

I need to escape multiple characters in a string. Chracters like : [ ]
# need to be escaped with a \ in all cases. I think quotes are going
to be added to this list. I need a transalate() on steroids.

Can't you use replace('$str:[]#', '[:\[\]#"]', '\\$0')?