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escaping special characters in search

IanGlencross
Kilo Expert

My LDAP is occasioanlly putting some junk into my sys_user table.   In particular it is inserting a carat (^)   character every now and again.

I was hoping to do a quick search for the carat (^)   character but search won't do it, neither will the URL based   https://<BASE>.service-now.com/sys_user_list.do?sysparm_query=user_nameLIKE^   as service now uses ^ as a logical "and".   I have to tried encode ( %5E) but this has no effect.

How do I escape this charater (and other special characters) in either of these scenarios?   Or do I need to write some regex ( /^\S*\^\S*$/) and run it in a script?

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var rec = new GlideRecord('sys_user');
rec.addQuery('user_name', "CONTAINS", "^");
rec.query();
while (rec.next()) { 
var str = 'Found user with carat: ' + rec.user_name + '          sys_id: ' + rec.sys_id;
 gs.print(str);
}


(Better formatting...)


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Cool, good to hear. Yeah sounds like time for some updates indeed!!! Please mark as "correct answer" or "helpful answer" so this post can be marked as "answered". Thanks!