ok,sounds like I implement the full set... Rainer
Sent from phone, thus brief. [email protected] hat geschrieben: yOn Wed, 12 Sep 2012, Abby Edwards wrote: > Date: Wed, 12 Sep 2012 14:44:40 -0500 > > On 9/12/12 2:26 PM, "Rainer Gerhards" <[email protected]> wrote: > > >>>> we really need an option to skip escaping tabs while still escaping >>> all >>>> the other control characters. too many logs include tabs and it gets >>>> 'interesting' to try and read them with #011 replacing them :) >>> >>> I definitely agree with the notion of having a way to escape all >>> control >>> characters except for tabs; I already have some logic in place in my >>> applications to handle literal tabs, but other control characters make >>> sense to escape. Right now I have to turn off the feature to escape >>> control characters just to preserve the tab behavior so as not to break >>> parsing. +1 for this suggestion from me! >> >> Folks, message heard, I'll see if I can add a global option for >> escape-all-but-tab. HOWEVER, my question was a different one ;) >> >> I was talking about escapes for script expressions, inside constant >> strings. So >> >> If $something contains 'aaa<escape here>bbbb' then ... >> >> This was triggered by Radu's question on how to escape backslash. With >> that said: do we need more than \\, \', \xhh inside script constants? >> > > In light of the fact rsyslog supports octet framing which means log > messages may actually contain new lines, it might be less surprising for > end users to be able to specify \r and / or \n directly without having to > specify it by hex code, but the hex code provides enough flexibility to > cover almost any circumstance. I could see you going either way. good point, I forgot about that. David Lang _______________________________________________ rsyslog mailing list http://lists.adiscon.net/mailman/listinfo/rsyslog http://www.rsyslog.com/professional-services/ What's up with rsyslog? Follow https://twitter.com/rgerhards NOTE WELL: This is a PUBLIC mailing list, posts are ARCHIVED by a myriad of sites beyond our control. PLEASE UNSUBSCRIBE and DO NOT POST if you DON'T LIKE THAT. _______________________________________________ rsyslog mailing list http://lists.adiscon.net/mailman/listinfo/rsyslog http://www.rsyslog.com/professional-services/ What's up with rsyslog? Follow https://twitter.com/rgerhards NOTE WELL: This is a PUBLIC mailing list, posts are ARCHIVED by a myriad of sites beyond our control. PLEASE UNSUBSCRIBE and DO NOT POST if you DON'T LIKE THAT.
