INN config file parsing infrastructure
Russ Allbery
rra at stanford.edu
Thu May 4 23:50:27 UTC 2000
Bill Davidsen <davidsen at tmr.com> writes:
> I wait for clarification on this, but I would expect
> parameter: "1st token
> 2nd token"
> ^ significant space here
> would do what you want.
I don't want it to. I could be persuaded otherwise, but I think unescaped
newlines in quoted strings should be a syntax error. Otherwise, runaway
unclosed quotes start generating odd and far-removed syntax errors.
> Then there should be no first whitespace. Trailing blanks are the curse
> of parsers, inn.conf has (had?) a problem with that, and complained if
> there was space after a parameter with no value.
> We should clarify this, preferably by ignoring unescaped and unquoted
> trailing whitespace.
Whitespace is insignificant except as a token separator unless it's inside
a quoted string.
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Russ Allbery (rra at stanford.edu) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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