It appears to me that a trap can contain a string with any characters.
This could lead to ambiguity in snmptrapd output. 

For instance, a string variable containing tabs (or commas or
newlines) could cause output that could be parsed as a shorter string
along with a set of extra variables. 
example:

snmptrap ... SNMPv2-MIB::sysLocation.0 s $'XXX \t .1.2.3.4 = INTEGER: 1234'
vs
snmptrap ... SNMPv2-MIB::sysLocation.0 s $'XXX' .1.2.3.4 i 1234

I'd like a way to generate output that can be reliably parsed correctly.

If I am correct that there is currently no way to do this, then I'd
like to suggest that such a facility be provided.  If that's not
correct then I'd appreciate instructions for doing it (or a pointer to
such).



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