[liblouis-liblouisxml] Re: Multipass opcodes, strings and backslashes
- From: "John J. Boyer" <john.boyer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: liblouis-liblouisxml@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 4 Jun 2012 14:03:50 -0500
Thanks again for finding bugs. However, it is not a good idea to require
nonnstandard notation. Two backslashes in the table entry should match a
single one in the input. The problem is in passGetStrring, and it does
call for a rewrite of this function. Do you want to try that?
Thanks,
John
On Mon, Jun 04, 2012 at 04:11:01PM +0200, Micha� Ba�amut wrote:
> Hi,
> I have attached a patch for another bug.
> When matching a string in multipass opcodes, it was impossible to use a
> single backslash as the last matched character.
> "\" and "\\" produced an error "unterminated string", and "\\\" matched only
> two consecutive backslashes.
> My solution is not very good, as now in order to match a single backslash at
> the end of string you need to type "\\\". It could also break existing
> tables, if someone previously used "\\\" to match 2 backslashes, but I
> searched all tables and such string was never used.
> Better fix would require some redesigning of the way strings are processed.
>
> regards,
> MB
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