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[jira] Created: (VELOCITY-784) troubles with backslash escaping
troubles with backslash escaping
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Key: VELOCITY-784
URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/VELOCITY-784
Project: Velocity
Issue Type: Bug
Components: Engine
Affects Versions: 2.0
Environment: any
Reporter: Claude Brisson
Priority: Minor
Is backslash escaping supposed to work inside string literals? I'm not sure it ever worked.
#set($char = "\'") $char ## => displays \'
##set($char = '\'') $char ## => parser fails
##set($char = "\"") $char ## => parser fails
#set($char = "\\") $char ## => displays \\
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[jira] Resolved: (VELOCITY-784) troubles with backslash escaping
Posted by "Nathan Bubna (JIRA)" <de...@velocity.apache.org>.
[ https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/VELOCITY-784?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:all-tabpanel ]
Nathan Bubna resolved VELOCITY-784.
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Resolution: Invalid
No, it's not, you are supposed to double quotes to escape them.
> troubles with backslash escaping
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>
> Key: VELOCITY-784
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/VELOCITY-784
> Project: Velocity
> Issue Type: Bug
> Components: Engine
> Affects Versions: 2.0
> Environment: any
> Reporter: Claude Brisson
> Priority: Minor
>
> Is backslash escaping supposed to work inside string literals? I'm not sure it ever worked.
> #set($char = "\'") $char ## => displays \'
> ##set($char = '\'') $char ## => parser fails
> ##set($char = "\"") $char ## => parser fails
> #set($char = "\\") $char ## => displays \\
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