RE: [Asunit-users] escaping special characters sent through MMExecute

[Robert P. <in...@ro...>]

This works:

    Sys.println('<lyric-font font-family="Arial" font-size="10.6"
name="section"/>');

Did you have anything more complex, like CDATA or line breaks?

Also, I found that tabs will terminate a string unless escaped, in which
case the Output panel shows it as a space.

   msg = stringReplace(msg, "\t", "\\t");

Hold the phone, just found another one. Literal backslashes "\\" need to be
escaped as well.

    msg = stringReplace(msg, "\\", "\\\\");

This should happen before the other escapes, of course.

Here's a string testing the various characters so far:

    Sys.println("one\rtwo\nthree's\tcompany\\\\//");

Desired output:

one
two
three's company\\//

If you don't escape the backslashes, they collapse to a single one in the
output.

Robert
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[mailto:asu...@li...]On Behalf Of Luke Bayes
  Sent: Thursday, September 08, 2005 1:53 PM
  To: asu...@li...
  Subject: Re: [Asunit-users] escaping special characters sent through
MMExecute


  Hey Robert,

  There has been a really persistent bug related to sending an XML string
through JSFL, I think it's root is in these special characters. Can you see
if a typical XML string will make it through this script?

  If so, I'll update the sources with your suggestion this afternoon.


  Thanks,


  Luke Bayes
  www.asunit.com