MACROMEDIA DREAMWEAVER 8-EXTENDING DREAMWEAVER Manual page 85

Escape characters
The following is a list of escape characters that Dreamweaver supports, along with the strings
to specify them and descriptions of their usage.
Escape
character
Backslash
White space
Newline
Maximum string length
The maximum length allowed for a data string is 100 characters. For example, the following
tag contains a wildcard character.
blockEnd
<blockEnd><![CDATA[<!--\s*#BeginEditable\s*"\*"\s*-->]]></blockEnd>
Assuming the optional white space wildcard strings (
Dreamweaver generates automatically, then the data string is 26 characters long, plus a
wildcard string ( ) for the name.
\*
<!-- #BeginEditable "\*" -->
This leaves an editable region name that can be as man y as 74 characters, which is the
maximum of 100 characters minus 26.
Escape Description
string
The backslash character (\) is the code coloring escape
\\
character, so it must be escaped to be specified in a code
coloring rule.
This escape character matches any non-visible characters,
\s
except those listed that match the Newline escape character,
such as space and tab characters.
The optional white space and required white space wildcards
match both the white space and newline characters.
This escape character matches the newline (also known as
\n
linefeed) and carriage-return characters.
) are a single space character, which
\s*
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