Jira (PUP-1814) Double backslashes in single quote strings should be interpreted as single

[Henrik Lindberg (JIRA)]

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Henrik Lindberg commented on an issue   Re: Double backslashes in single quote strings should be interpreted as single notice 'a single \ and a double backslash \\ and then escaped garbage \g' notice "a single \ and a double backslash \\ and then escaped garbage \g" produces the same output for both existing and future parsers Warning: Unrecognised escape sequence '\ ' in file /Users/henrik/git/puppet/foo.pp at line 2 Warning: Unrecognised escape sequence '\g' in file /Users/henrik/git/puppet/foo.pp at line 2 Notice: Scope(Class[main]): a single \ and a double backslash \\ and then escaped garbage \g Notice: Scope(Class[main]): a single \ and a double backslash \ and then escaped garbage \g It has worked this way for quite some time. Add Comment   Puppet / PUP-1814 Double backslashes in single quote strings should be interpreted as single Double backslashes in single quoted strings should be interpreted as single backslashes but aren't. The following manifest: {code}     notice('foo\\bar') {code} Gives: {code}     notice: Scope(Class[main]): foo\\bar {code} This is not the behavior described at [http://docs.puppetlabs.com/guides/language_guide.html#quoting](http://docs.puppetlab... This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v6.1.4#6159-sha1:44eaede) -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Bugs" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to puppet-bugs+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to puppet-bugs@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-bugs. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.