# How to escape %?

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**Created:** [August 17, 2011, 9:47am UTC](https://www.finalbuilder.com/forums/t/how-to-escape/4488 "2011-08-17T09:47:06Z")\
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**Post date:** [August 17, 2011, 9:47am UTC](https://www.finalbuilder.com/forums/t/how-to-escape/4488/1 "2011-08-17T09:47:06Z")

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&nbsp;Some of our passwords are like %password%123. Automise tries to find a variable name %password% to subsitute. Any way to escape the % character?

Thanks

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**Author:** ![stephen.ryan](https://www.finalbuilder.com/forums/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/f14d63/32.png) [@stephen.ryan](https://www.finalbuilder.com/forums/u/stephen.ryan)\
**Post date:** [August 18, 2011, 12:46pm UTC](https://www.finalbuilder.com/forums/t/how-to-escape/4488/2 "2011-08-18T12:46:42Z")

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Hi   
  
 A single % sign is escaped by two percent signs %%. So your password value would need to read as %%password%%123.   
  
 Escaping variable references and disabling recursive expansion of variables is covered in the help file under Variables -\> Escaping Variable References.   
  
 Hope this helps.   
  
 Regards,   
 Steve