cgi, templates, and the % operator

[Moshe Zadka]

On Sun, 23 Jul 2000, Bob Horvath wrote:

> HI all,
> 
> I have a CGI script that I would like to be able to use the
> % operator and a HTML template to product the outout.
> Unfortunately, the HTML that is the template contains table tags
> that have percentage widths on them , as in '<table align="center"
> width="90%">'.  Later, of course, I have something like 'blah blah
> %(var_to_be_replaced)s blah blah'.
> 
> The problem is that the % in the width setting looks like a format
> string.
> 
> Anyway to escape the %, or to turn it into something else that
> won't screw up the % operator.

Yes -- use %%.

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