Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System

Andrew Johnson <[email protected]> · Thu, 3 Sep 2009 10:09:08 -0500

Hi Dirk,

On Thursday 03 September 2009 04:43:13 Dirk Zimoch wrote:
>
> I found a bug in casr. Empty strings were saved as data{} (in ascii format)
> but cannot be restored. The fix below stores empty strings as data{""}.

I applied your patch to CVS, so it will appear in tonight's snapshot.  If 
someone wants a new release with that included it can be arranged.

> There are still other issues: It is not possible to restore a string that
> contains a quote (") or that ends with a backslash (\). Both result in
> syntax errors. Restoring a string that contains special characters like äöü
> sometimes hangs up carestore.

We're happy to take patches from the community, but unless we get a request 
from an APS user of this code (I don't know if any exist) we can't really 
justify spending time debugging it here.

Thanks,

- Andrew
-- 
The best FOSS code is written to be read by other humans -- Harold Welte

Experimental Physics and Industrial Control System

Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System