PieFed chez MarudEscaping a string when passing through multiple tools
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Regexes in bash commands are my nemesis.
Regexes in bash commands are my nemesis.
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silly goose meekahThis meme brought to you by me trying to pass a regex from Nix into a TOML, which is certainly not the worst backslash orgy I’ve seen, but tragic in its own right. Both Nix and TOML have a way to specify raw strings, which do not need escaping. But Nix uses a normal string when passing into TOML, so I do have to escape anyways. 🫠
My regex also contains a double-quote, which was just guesswork as to how many backslashes I need there.
But Nix uses a normal string when passing into TOML, so I do have to escape anyways
What do you mean by that? You are always able to just use the '' strings instead of the " strings, they are just different syntax for the same underlying type. Or are you just using lib.generators.toINI without any arguments? Maybe try something like this:
toTomlEscapeBackslashes = toINI {
mkKeyValue = mkKeyValueDefault { mkValueString = x: lib.escape [ ''\'' ] (toString x); } "=";
}
This will escape the values, like this:
nix-repl> :print toTomlEscapeBackslashes { my.regex = ''foo\nbar''; }
[my]
regex=foo\\nbar
TimeSquirrelLearning C: Random asterisks go
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Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa No!!!!! My data! Please stop doing that!
I think I have seen a few CLI tools that put the input between an open and close arg like this “-arg1 random passthrough string -arg1-”
Now say the CLI tool is passed a string that has “-arg1-” inside it.
https://xkcd.com/297/
Oh you mean a pipiline defined in yaml, running in poweshell to execute a command in docker on windows?
I had to do this yesterday. First I tried ". Then \", finally \” worked. Which doesn’t make sense. But I’m not looking for answers, I’ve got more Jira tickets this sprint.
LOL even here it gets me . I tried slash quote, slash slash slash quote, finally slash slash quote worked.
You mean
\",\\", and\\\"?Run a PowerShell script from batch, but call it using start-process as administrator, using a variable for the path and also pass parameters to the script.
I added an expression support to my Automod for Lemmy which can have subexpressions as parameters etc., pretty cool to work with.
Except every subexpression needs 2^n-1 slashes where n is the depth level. Fun times writing the expressions.