[Simon]

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Originally Posted by D0erfler and replacing % with %% wouldn't help(still %%s).

Did you try this? The reason '%%' is there is so '%' appears in a formatted string. '%' is merely an escape character like '\' is an escape character for Pawn strings which you escape with '\\'.

I would like to see '%' allowed back in chat again. It's easy to make counter measures against format attacks by filtering the string before parsing it into format, any half-decent scripter would know how to do this. I'm sure someone would post a generic function to do this for newbies anyhow.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Format_string_attack