escaping double quotes in strings

[Brydon Cheyney]

hi,

according to the user guide, if the right hand side of a #set directive, is
a string literal, strings quoted by "..." are interpolated, while strings
quoted by '...' are not. this allows you to set variables such as

#set ( $foo = "$bar$baz" )

however, what this does /not/ allow you to do it seems is this

#set ($foo = "foo=\"$bar\"" )

which you would imagine would be valid code. after all, you can quote other
characters within the string literal, so why not double quotes?

or am i missing something? i'd search the archives on mail-archive, but it
appears the facility is broken.

cheers,
brydon

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brydon cheyney
senior analyst programmer, 2fluid creative ltd

[Brydon Cheyney]

....

ok, so it appears the htdig search is back. =) the solution set by geir
magnusson in
http://www.mail-archive.com/velocity-***@jakarta.apache.org/msg05289.html
is doable, but hardly optimal. has there been any more discussion into
integrating this functionality into the parsing of string literals in #set
directives? geir mentions having code kicking around for this....

- brydon

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brydon cheyney
senior analyst programmer, 2fluid creative ltd

[Geir Magnusson Jr.]

Post by Brydon Cheyney
....
ok, so it appears the htdig search is back. =) the solution set by geir
magnusson in
is doable, but hardly optimal.

Clearly not optimal :)

Post by Brydon Cheyney
has there been any more discussion into
integrating this functionality into the parsing of string literals in #set
directives? geir mentions having code kicking around for this....

[Geir Magnusson Jr.]

Post by Brydon Cheyney
hi,
according to the user guide, if the right hand side of a #set directive, is
a string literal, strings quoted by "..." are interpolated, while strings
quoted by '...' are not. this allows you to set variables such as
#set ( $foo = "$bar$baz" )
however, what this does /not/ allow you to do it seems is this
#set ($foo = "foo=\"$bar\"" )
which you would imagine would be valid code. after all, you can quote other
characters within the string literal, so why not double quotes?

Do you mean escape? - you can't escape characters in Velocity.

Post by Brydon Cheyney
or am i missing something? i'd search the archives on mail-archive, but it
appears the facility is broken.

No, not broken.

In 1.4, there is an existing proposal for doing

#set($foo = " This is ""quoted""!")
#set($foo = ' This is ''quoted''!')

because it's backwards compatible.

[Brydon Cheyney]

Post by Geir Magnusson Jr.

Post by Brydon Cheyney
or am i missing something? i'd search the archives on
mail-archive, but it appears the facility is broken.

No, not broken.

sorry, i didn't mean the velocity directive - the search facility on
/mail-archive/ was broken... =) the ht database needed merged, and was
down for most of yesterday.

Post by Geir Magnusson Jr.
In 1.4, there is an existing proposal for doing
#set($foo = " This is ""quoted""!")
#set($foo = ' This is ''quoted''!')
because it's backwards compatible.

this sounds good....

thanks,
brydon

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brydon cheyney
senior analyst programmer, 2fluid creative ltd

[Geir Magnusson Jr.]

Post by Brydon Cheyney

Post by Geir Magnusson Jr.

Post by Brydon Cheyney
or am i missing something? i'd search the archives on
mail-archive, but it appears the facility is broken.

No, not broken.

sorry, i didn't mean the velocity directive - the search facility on
/mail-archive/ was broken... =) the ht database needed merged, and was
down for most of yesterday.

Now that I re-read the sentence, it's clear what you meant :) Must have
been pretty tired... :)

Post by Brydon Cheyney

Post by Geir Magnusson Jr.
In 1.4, there is an existing proposal for doing
#set($foo = " This is ""quoted""!")
#set($foo = ' This is ''quoted''!')
because it's backwards compatible.

this sounds good....
thanks,
brydon
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brydon cheyney
senior analyst programmer, 2fluid creative ltd