Query of Queries (QofQ) Escaped Character Problem

Question

Hello All,
I'm trying to run a query or queires (QofQ) and I'm doing a
LIKE comparison that looks for bracket characters ([ ]) within a
string, however ColdFusion is ignoring the brackets. How can I
escape the bracket character? So far I have only been able to
escape the percent sign based on the ColdFusion Live Docs. The
error message I get when I run the query below is:
Invalid Escape Sequence. Valid sequence pairs for this escape
character are: "\%", or "\_".
Here is the query:
<cfquery dbtype="query" name="getLogs">
SELECT *
FROM GetLogs
WHERE Description LIKE '%\[User:#UserID#\]%' ESCAPE '\'
</cfquery>
Thanks for your help!

Answer 1

You are correct. If you leave the brackets in the LIKE
statement, it will return results as if the brackets weren't there
at all.
Perhaps I need to figure out the ASCII character value of the
bracket and include it that way i.e. #Char(?)# where the question
mark would be the numerical value of that character.
My temporary solution has been to leave off the starting
bracket:
<cfquery dbtype="query" name="getLogs">
SELECT *
FROM GetLogs
WHERE Description LIKE '%user:#UserID#]%'
</cfquery>
This has (so far) returned the results i'm looking for
although its not as 100% accurate without that beginning [ in the
LIKE statement.