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Subject: Re: DESC field containing embedded double-quotes?
From: Ralph Lange <[email protected]>
To: Rod Nussbaumer <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Date: Mon, 24 Apr 2006 11:08:03 +0200
Staring at the code in .../src/dbStatic/dbLex.l and the other source files there, I would say that escaping a double quote is supported in a half-assed way:
\" doesn't end the string and hence is copied into the field, but no one ever takes out the backslash. Oops. Looks like a bug to me. I created Mantis entry 250.


Cheers,
Ralph


Rod Nussbaumer wrote:
EPICS Guruen:

I am generating EPICS .db files from a perl script, and would like to be able to generate records which have DESC fields containing the '"' 'double-quote' character. Is this possible? What is the syntax? I have tried editing an otherwise working database file, and have not been able to create one that passes the database loader. Have tried using combinations of multiple d-quotes and escaping them with various numbers of '\' 'backslash' characters.

I am using R3.14.8.2 on Scientific Linux 4.

Thanks.

Rod Nussbaumer,
Electronics Development Group,
TRIUMF


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DESC field containing embedded double-quotes? Rod Nussbaumer

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