Concatenating/inserting strings with backslashes

[Brian Julin]

> 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}"
   }
}