get_field_str() and interpret_field() bug with multi-word fields

LC Bruzenak lenny at magitekltd.com
Tue Aug 12 19:02:35 UTC 2008


On Tue, 2008-08-12 at 14:52 -0400, John Dennis wrote:
...
> 
> FWIW, I think the proper encoding should be that all string values are
> enclosed in double quotes and the string encoding follows the same
> backslash escaping defined for the C language which was subsequently
> adopted by many other system components which would make it instantly
> familiar and parseable by many tools. This would be a very simple and
> welcome fix.

IIRC there were objections to the double-quotes but that would work for
me too.

LCB.

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LC (Lenny) Bruzenak
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