On 20/02/07, Magnus Holmgren <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'd like to suggest a modification of string_nextinlist() to make it possible > to use certain control characters as list separators (as you probably know, a > less-than followed by any punctuation characters in the beginning of most > lists tell Exim that said punctuation character is the list separator). > > The simplest syntax would be if "<n" meant that newline (\n) is the separator > and "<t" meant tab (\t). "<s" for space might also be useful (or simply "< ", > which doesn't work today since space isn't considered a punctuation > character). Would this be likely to break existing configurations? >
I support that - it would remove the need for ugly 'sg'-ing of lists derived from (for example) MySQL queries. I guess there's a chance it might break a config that uses a literal 'n' as a separator, since it's a valid thing to do... Peter -- Peter Bowyer Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- ## List details at http://www.exim.org/mailman/listinfo/exim-dev Exim details at http://www.exim.org/ ##
