Question

How do you escape the forward slash character (/) in VBScript? For example, in the following string:

bob = 'VU administration/front desk' 

Answer 1

You don’t escape it: it doesn’t mean anything special in php or vbscript, and therefore doesn’t need to be escaped. The only character you need to escape in vbscript is the double quote, which escapes itself:

MyString = 'He said, ''Here's how you escape a double quote in vbscript. Slash characters -- both forward (/) and back (\) -- don't mean anything, even when used with common control characters like \n or \t.''' 

Similarly, in php a backslash escapes itself, but a forward slash doesn’t need any special handling.