Roland Mainz wrote: > >> Please note the double-quotes in the former output, which might help >> your script determine whether you're looking at a single string value >> (possibly with spaces) or at multiple values. > > Well, it doesn't give me a hint whether the value is an array or not.. > ;-( > ... what happens if a value_node contains characters like '"' > (double-quote), '\'' (single-quote), '$' or <newline> etc. ?
Double-quotes will be escaped using backslash (backslashes should also be escaped). Agreed, parsing this is not completely trivial, but that's probably your only chance. I suggest that you go ahead and experiment to see what the behavior is w.r.t. other "special" characters. T.
