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Subject: How to concatenate a backslash to a string
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Hello group.

When in *scratch* I try
(concat "\\" "%")
I get "\\%"

But what I really want is to get "\%".   (I am trying to TeXify some
text and convert %->\%, $->\$, etc).

If I try (concat "\" "%") I get a syntax error because the \ is
escaping the ".

Many thanks,

Mirko