On Fri, Apr 03, 2009 at 03:14:46PM -0400, Rob Morris wrote:
> All, I'm trying to get an exim string expansion to take a literal string
> (eg from a file lookup) like this:
>
> "This is a first line\nThis is a second"
>
> and turn it into
>
> "This is a first line
> This is a second"
>
> Seems the correct thing is to do:
>
> "${sg {...value...}{\N\\n\N}{\n}}"
That works for me with Exim 4.68:
$ cat /tmp/test
This is a first line\nThis is a second
$ /usr/lib/exim/exim -be
> ${readfile{/tmp/test}}
"This is a first line\nThis is a second"
> ${sg{${readfile{/tmp/test}}}{\N\\n\N}{\n}}
"This is a first line
This is a second"
> Any ideas on how I can get this to work correctly?
>
> PS: in case context matters, the full line is in a transport, and is:
>
> text = "${sg
> {${lookup{$local_part}lsearch{/var/mail/sites/${domain}/.vacations}}}{\N\\n\N}{\n}}"
Maybe something is happening further in the transport. Hard to say
without more info.
--
Dean Brooks
[email protected]
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