From afcb4a0f987e22e3f8705ac820df8b039d93d79f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Pragmatic Software <pragma78@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 17 Jun 2020 04:11:18 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] Factoids: unescape certain symbols after expansion

---
 PBot/Factoids.pm | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/PBot/Factoids.pm b/PBot/Factoids.pm
index 7c41a7e8..ce3558b0 100644
--- a/PBot/Factoids.pm
+++ b/PBot/Factoids.pm
@@ -888,8 +888,8 @@ sub expand_factoid_vars {
 
     $result = $self->expand_special_vars($from, $nick, $root_keyword, $result);
 
-    $result =~ s/\\\$/\$/g;
-    $result =~ s/(?<!\\)\\(.)/$1/g;
+    # unescape certain symbols
+    $result =~ s/(?<!\\)\\([\$\:\|])/$1/g;
 
     return validate_string($result, $self->{pbot}->{registry}->get_value('factoids', 'max_content_length'));
 }