Using a backslash to escape quotes was never a supported feature. We
have never had quote escaping until the quote doubling feature was
added.
On Wed, Jul 20, 2011 at 8:19 AM, Christopher Schultz
<ch...@christopherschultz.net> wrote:
> All,
>
> I've found an expression that parser in Velocity 1.4 but does not in
> Velocity 1.7:
>
> #set($linkedExpression =
> $linkedExpression.replaceAll('(?:fact|response|freeResponse)\(\s*([0-9]+)\s*[^)]*\)',
> "<a
> href=\"$link.setForward('clinician-edit-question')?id=${dollar}1\">${dollar}0</a>"))
>
> (That should be all on one line)
>
> The parse error is:
>
> org.apache.velocity.exception.ParseErrorException: Encountered "$link"
> at mytemplate.vm[line 95, column 123]
> Was expecting one of:
> "," ...
> ")" ...
> <WHITESPACE> ...
>
> Column 123 is, as you might imagine, the only reference to $link above.
> It looks like the \" is tripping-up the parser.
>
> I seem to recall come discussion about escaped characters in
> double-quoted strings a while ago. Did we decide that backslash woul no
> longer escape a double-quote in a string? What's the recommended
> technique for embedding double-quotes, now?
>
> #set($quote = '"')
> #set($foo = "quoted $quote thing")
>
> or
>
> #set($foo = "quoted $esc.q thing")
>
> or something else?
>
> Thanks,
> -chris
>
>
>
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