On 9/12/12 2:26 PM, "Rainer Gerhards" <[email protected]> wrote:
>> >we really need an option to skip escaping tabs while still escaping >> all >> >the other control characters. too many logs include tabs and it gets >> >'interesting' to try and read them with #011 replacing them :) >> >> I definitely agree with the notion of having a way to escape all >> control >> characters except for tabs; I already have some logic in place in my >> applications to handle literal tabs, but other control characters make >> sense to escape. Right now I have to turn off the feature to escape >> control characters just to preserve the tab behavior so as not to break >> parsing. +1 for this suggestion from me! > >Folks, message heard, I'll see if I can add a global option for >escape-all-but-tab. HOWEVER, my question was a different one ;) > >I was talking about escapes for script expressions, inside constant >strings. So > >If $something contains 'aaa<escape here>bbbb' then ... > >This was triggered by Radu's question on how to escape backslash. With >that said: do we need more than \\, \', \xhh inside script constants? > In light of the fact rsyslog supports octet framing which means log messages may actually contain new lines, it might be less surprising for end users to be able to specify \r and / or \n directly without having to specify it by hex code, but the hex code provides enough flexibility to cover almost any circumstance. I could see you going either way. Thank you, Abby _______________________________________________ rsyslog mailing list http://lists.adiscon.net/mailman/listinfo/rsyslog http://www.rsyslog.com/professional-services/ What's up with rsyslog? Follow https://twitter.com/rgerhards NOTE WELL: This is a PUBLIC mailing list, posts are ARCHIVED by a myriad of sites beyond our control. PLEASE UNSUBSCRIBE and DO NOT POST if you DON'T LIKE THAT.
