{"id":17727,"date":"2019-01-10T10:45:33","date_gmt":"2019-01-10T18:45:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/?p=17727"},"modified":"2019-01-10T10:45:33","modified_gmt":"2019-01-10T18:45:33","slug":"17727","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/2019\/01\/10\/17727\/","title":{"rendered":"%%"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<p>Well, phooey.\r\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/?p=41377\">Language Log alerts me<\/a> to the existence of Apink\u2019s new single called \u201c%%\u201d.\r\n<p>I care about this, not because I listen to K-Pop, but because I use <strong>%%<\/strong> when I\u2019m using repeated replace-all in large files (in the English language) and I want a string that reliably does not appear in the actual text. If, f\u2019r\u2019ex, I want (for some reason) to replace all the single paragraph breaks in a file, and keep all the double paragraph breaks as single paragraph breaks, I can replace <strong>^p^p<\/strong> with <strong>%%<\/strong>, then remove all the <strong>^p<\/strong> marks, and then replace all <strong>%%<\/strong> with <strong>^p<\/strong> marks. This comes up if I\u2019m (f\u2019r\u2019ex) dealing with text that has been imported from a pdf file, or with certain OCR result files. There are other sorts of occasions where it I have found it helpful to use a string of characters that I feel confident won\u2019t occur naturally. And now, alas, I cannot be so confident.\r\n<P>Yes, I know the <strong>%%<\/strong> is used in certain coding structures, but the frankly slender chance that I will at some point be formatting a document with a reference to a K-Pop single is still greater than the infinitesimal chance I will be formatting a document with a reference to that command. So there.\r\n<p>It won\u2019t be difficult to come up with another such string, of course\u2014I\u2019m taking recommendations!\u2014but I\u2019m <i>used<\/i> to my double-percentage-sign, aren\u2019t I?\r\n<p>Thanks,<br>-Ed.\r\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yeah, that&#8217;s a double percentage sign.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[95],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17727","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-repetition"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17727","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17727"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17727\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17729,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17727\/revisions\/17729"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17727"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17727"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17727"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}