[syslog-ng] escaping \[ not respected

[Balazs Scheidler]

On Thu, 2008-10-02 at 08:51 -0700, Evan Rempel wrote:
> Balazs Scheidler wrote:
> > On Thu, 2008-10-02 at 09:12 +1300, chris packham wrote:
> >> One option would be to use the kind quotes ' vs " to determine whether to
> >> escape or not. I believe bash (and maybe perl) does this kind of thing when
> >> handling strings.
> > 
> > Yeah, the problem is with compatibility, ' and " style quoting has been
> > working this way for about a decade, changing that would break a lot of
> > configurations.
> > 
> > I should have made this decision back then, but changing this now is not
> > really possible I think.
> 
> Perhaps adding a new config keyword
> 
> match_pcre(/no syslog-ng escape codes, all escapes are handled by the pcre evaluation/)
> 
> The down side to this is that you really need to have program_pcre and any other additions along those
> lines. Things get a little messy. Hopefully in a later version the normal match, program directives could be
> made to work this way, and the match_pcre etc would become backwards compatible aliases to the non_pcre commands.
> 
> I don't really like that solution, but I thought I would "throw it out there".
> 

This is quiet ugly. The problem is that I could also come up only with
ugly solutions.

> Another option is to an something like is already present for the templates where there is a
> template_escape(no) option. If you add a regex_escape(yes/no) directive and default to yes, then
> all of the current expressions would work.
> 
> If you do not need to have quotes in your expression, then you can use regex_escape(no) and do
> away with the escapes for the escapes.

This is not currently possible, the lexes resolves the escapes before
even going to the parser..

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Bazsi