Some special characters not escaped properly

[chrispolley]

In liquidsoap v.1.1.1, Including an actual backslash in a liquidsoap string is difficult.

For a backslash, the simple declaration:
bs = "\\"

generates an "Unterminated String" error. The second backslash appears to be escaping the second quote, which is not what I expected.

similarly, the declaration:

lf = "\\n"

does not generate a string containing a backslash-n combination, which is needed, for instance, in constructing a multi-line system call, such as using socat to set another liquidsoap instance's interactive.string variables

The work-around I have been able to come up with is to base64-encode the desired string and assign it using the base64.decode function:

lf = base64.decode("XG4=")
bs = base64.decode("XA==")

and then including them in other strings using the #{bs} or #{lf} phrase.

[toots]

That's a smart workaround! @dbaelde maybe be able to help on this one..

[toots]

I closed this one by adding this:

# x = "\092";;
x : string = "\\"

Also, \n can be obtained simply as:

# x = "\n";;
x : string = "\n"