RE: Concatenating/inserting strings with backslashes

Brian Candler writes:

Or is there another way I can concatenate strings, which doesn't involve expanding them into another string?

The workaround I've used for this is to feed the value through a regexp match to get it into %{1}, which does not seem to be subject to unescaping. try: if (%{reply:Reply-Message} =~ /(.*)/) { update reply { Reply-Message = "stuff %{1}" } }