Re: [Doxygen-develop] FILTER_PATTERNS is working with additional " at the end

[Dimitri v. H. <do...@gm...>]

Hi Eckard,

On May 10, 2013, at 10:54 , Eck...@t-... (Eckard Klotz) wrote:

> Hello Developers.
> 
> After some additional tests and referring the archive again I'm sure that the configuration of FILTER_PATTERNS is not working or its usage is not documented completely.
> 
> Even if I use
> FILTER_PATTERNS = *.m=./folder/subfolder/m2cpp.pl
> the c-comment files will be analysed but not the matlab-files.
> 
> Doxygen gives me the warning that the perl-script "./folder/subfolder/m2cpp.pl can not be opened.
> Note, the double-quote " is part of the doxygen warning message and there is no double-quote at the end of the message.
> 
> Once a realized that, I tried to insert in the wizard-input as filter-pattern
> *.m=./folder/subfolder/m2cpp.pl"  (note the double-quote at the end)
> This results in the DOXYFILE the line:
> FILTER_PATTERNS = "*.m=./folder/subfolder/m2cpp.pl\""
> 
> 
> And last but not least it works now. Since I don't use the filter as INPUT_FILTER all c-like files will be analysed like expected, while all m-files will be preprocessed with the filter.
> 
> Again an additional double-quote with backslash is needed at the end of the filter-definition:
> FILTER_PATTERNS = "pattern=filter\""
> in the doxygen-wizard the input is : pattern=filter"
> 
> Please decide if this is the wanted behaviour (then it may be useful to extend the documentation) or if this is a bug in the part to call the perl-script.
> If you think this is a problem of the used perl-script I have added, please help me with some information and I will discuss this in the associated forum of matlab.

A pair of quotes should only be needed in case the path contains spaces.
You should not need to add a dummy " or \" in the configuration file.
Can you file a bug report with a self-contained example that allows me to reproduce the problem?

Regards,
  Dimitri