Escaping characters, ^ and \ didn't work. I want to search for `content:"content: ".""` correctly.

[TenTickles]

I tried to use the escape characters ^ and \ but they didn't work.

What I want is to search for files that contain the substring

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content: "."

.

The most immediate attempt is to search for:

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content:"content: ".""

, but this is obviously wrong. I tried

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content:"content: ^".^""

but it didn't work.

[NotNull]

Does the following work?

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content:"content: &quot:.&quot:"

( &quot: = literal quote )

The backslash as an escape character is used by regular expresions.
This should work too:

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regex:content:"content: \"\.\""

\" = literal "
\. = literal .

[TenTickles]

Yes it does! Thank you. : )

PS: Correction, by `]. = literal .`, the user meant `\. = literal .`.

[NotNull]

the user has fixed his typo
Thanks!