That was actually even a bug, because in v5 \\ worked. So I implemented this as a bugfix to v6-stable. Note that Double-quotes are now also supported, but do currently not permit $ inside the string (use \$ to include that).
Patch: http://git.adiscon.com/?p=rsyslog.git;a=commitdiff;h=10bef02e8f8f6bec4f1c18d9c634aa6927f4611a Rainer > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:rsyslog- > [email protected]] On Behalf Of Rainer Gerhards > Sent: Wednesday, September 12, 2012 10:23 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [rsyslog] How to escape backslash in rainerscript > if...then conditions > > 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. _______________________________________________ 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.
