Problem with routes.php and brackets

[eluser]umbungo[/eluser]
When trying to re-route a name with brackets in it i get a 404. Is it possible to fix this / how?

Thanks.

[eluser]umbungo[/eluser]
anyone? please?

[eluser]osci[/eluser]
Not sure if it helps but check adding them in application/config.php at $config['permitted_uri_chars']

[eluser]WanWizard[/eluser]
Route's are regex definitions, you can't just include characters in a route that have special meaning in a PHP regex. Like a bracket. Try escaping it with a backslash.

[eluser]umbungo[/eluser]
hmm.. Thanks for the replies.. i tried both of these suggestions and no joy.

Would it only be the first half that needs escaping? eg..

Code:

$route['Name-With-\(Brackets\)'] = "main/main/Name-With-(Brackets)";

(NB: i tried various different combinations and none seemed to work)

[eluser]umbungo[/eluser]
still stuck on this one

[eluser]danmontgomery[/eluser]
Seems like it would be more appropriate to be using backreferences ($1, $2, etc) for parameters?

[eluser]umbungo[/eluser]
AHHHHHHHHHHH finally.

Escaping the brackets does not work. I tried double/triple/quadruple escaping them too. After several hours staring at /trying to figure out /playing with the code trying to get things to work i finally got to the solution;

Code:

$route['Name-With-&\#40;Brackets&\#41;'] = "main/main/Name-With-(Brackets)";
$route['Name-With-&\#40;Brackets&\#40;/:any'] = "main/main/Name-With-(Brackets)/$1";

So thats HTML entity for brackets, IN DECIMAL, and not forgetting the escaping of #. Oddly (with my understanding, anyway), the HEX html entity encoding

Code:

'Name-With-&\#x28;Brackets&\#x29;'

does not work either.

note: I ******* HATE THESE ISSUES WITH CHARACTER ENCODING. How are you meant to tell what form it is deciding to take today? Almost impossible to debug too; echo anything in the browser and it comes out as normal text.