[Petal] Re: Petal bug in quoting of \

[Jean-Michel Hiver]

On Mon 23-Jun-2003 at 07:20:35PM +0100, Fergal Daly wrote:
> Hi Jean-Michel,
> 	I found a bug in the quoting. This template
> 
> <t petal:omit-tag="string:1">\</t>
> 
> produces this code
> 
> $VAR1 = sub {
>     my $hash = shift;
>     my $res = "";
>     local $^W = 0;
>     $res .= "";
>     if ($hash->get ('false:string:1')) {
>         $res .= "<t>";
>     }
>     $res .= "\"; # OOPS
>     if ($hash->get ('false:string:1')) {
>         $res .= "</t>";
>     }
>     return $res;
> };

Ok, this is a bug, but you should be really writing:

  <t petal:omit-tag="string:1">\\</t>

Since \ escapes everything, so if your want your template to output $foo
(rather than the variable 'foo') you can type \$foo.

Cheers,
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