[galaxy-dev] Escaped text from input fields

Hi everyone, I'm writing a wrapper that includes one text field. I'm then passing the contents of this field to the underlying tool with a simple: command $textfield However when a user inputs something like Test#1 the command ends up as: command Test__pd__1 I did a quick search on the web and it seems to be the name of some escaping function in galaxy. Is there any way I can get the text field content across untouched? Thanks, Renato