Is there a better way to escape this string?

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What is the quickest way in ColdFusion (or Java) for converting a string as such: ``` Input: 79827349837493827498 Output: \79\82\73\49\83\74\93\82\74\98 ``` I'm taking an LDAP GUID and escaping it for a query. I can do it as a series of MID reductions like this: ``` ``` But it seems like there would be something more elegant, like a regular expression replace.

Accepted Answer

I haven't tested this, so the syntax might be off, but you should be able to do something like:

```
<cfset V1 = REReplace(V1,"([0-9]{2})","\\1","all")>
```

Is there a better way to escape this string?

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