Ralph Lange (BESSY) made a request that we change
the dbLoadRecords lex syntax to allow more characters
in quoted strings. He also described changes to the
lex program that allowed the new characters.
The change is to do the following: Instead of deciding
what characters to allow just decide what not to allow.
This idea simplifies the lex program and also ends forever
requests similar to
"Why cant I put character x in quoted strings", where
x is some character not currently allowed.
Thus quoted string will be able to contain any ascii character
except the quote character itself. In fact we can easily
allow the quote character to be escaped with a \".
Thus the following is a legal string
"xxx\"yyy"
Note that this allows people to directly imbed control characters
into quoted strings.
These changes will be made to dbLoadDatabase, dbLoadRecords,
dbLoadTemplate, and to the access security lex code.
A sample set of changes are:
> notquote [^\"]
> escapequote \\\"
> value {notquote}|{escapequote}
4,21d6
< BEL \\a
< BS \\b
< FF \\f
< NL \\n
< CR \\r
< HT \\t
< VT \\v
< backSla \\\\
< question \\\?
< single \\\'
< double \\\"
< octal \\[0-7]+
< hexa \\x[a-fA-F0-9]+
< escape
{BEL}|{BS}|{FF}|{NL}|{CR}|{HT}|{VT}|{backSla}|{question}|{single}|{double}|{octal}|{question}|{hexa}
< spaces [ \t]
< regular [a-zA-Z0-9_\,\^~\./\*#\[\]%:;!|\'\-&\(\)@\?\+<>=\$\{\}]
< value {regular}|{spaces}|{escape}
Note that the lex code is shorter!!!!
Thanks Ralph!!
Marty Kraimer
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