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Christopher Schultz commented on VELOCITY-587:
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IMO, you should be able to be a double-quote into a doubly-quoted string. It
sounds like Nathan is saying that the backslash should only be used to escape
references and directives/macros. I think the backslash should be extended to
act like a more general escape character. For instance, I would expect this to
work:
#set($doubleQuote = "\"")
Instead of $doubleQuote containing a single double-quote, it contains a
backslash plus a single double-quote (at least in Velocity 1.4).
I would think that it would actually be easier to make the parser treat
backslash as a general escape character than to have different rules in
different places (the different rules being that backslashes are consumed in
some circumstances but not in others).
> Backslashes throw lexical errors in double-quoted strings
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>
> Key: VELOCITY-587
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/VELOCITY-587
> Project: Velocity
> Issue Type: Bug
> Affects Versions: 1.6
> Reporter: Jon Seymour
> Priority: Minor
> Fix For: 1.6
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> The VTL doesn't currently provide a way to express strings containing a
> single backslash (\)
> #set($backslash="\")
> results in a lexical error during template parsing.
> #set($backslash="\\")
> results in $backslash being assigned a string containing two backslashes (\\)
> It appears the only workaround available now is to construct a variable
> containing just a single backslash with this idiom:
> #set($twobackslashes="\\")
> #set($backslash=$twobackslashes.substring(0,1))
> Even if this can't be fixed in the parser, the documentation should be
> updated to define a preferred idiom for obtaining a string containing a
> single backslash.
> jon.
> note: this issue partially duplicates a comment by Guido Deinhammer on issue
> #454 regarding other escaping issues. I have raised a separate issue, so that
> this one can be addressed separately, if desired.
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