7-zip command line escaping

7-zip command line escaping Is it possible to escape characters from the source file or archive when using 7-zip's command line interface. For example:
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"The problem stems from that fact that these commands were being issued from within a batch file. The % symbol has a special meaning in batch files. They can be escaped by doubling up the symbol (%%). Example:

7z a ""My%%Archive.zip"" ""My%%File.txt"" -mx9

I also tried to escape with the caret (^) but that did not work.

The percent symbol problem has nothing to do with 7zip.

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