My original question was posted on May 29th.

Thanks to Nick Seigal and Peter Siebert for a couple of suggestions that
work.

"<http://mi-gis/gis/cfdbpages.cfm?sid=129>".Quote.Unquote

(Don't ask me why this works...something to do with ArcView wanting to
use
the "?" as a wildcard otherwise.) - Nick

The ? is a wildcard in the query builder. I couldn't find any info on what
the escape character is to include wildcards as string literals but you
could always use the number.asChar syntax where number is the ASCII code for
'?' (63). Thus in the field calculator enter:


"foo" + 63.asChar + "=bar" to get "foo?=bar"
- Peter


Mike Onzay
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City of Mercer Island
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