Paul Edwards wrote in a message to Phil Crown:

PC> Alias  af     "Areafix"         1:124/6108.0  pck   
"xx;xxxxx"

PC> The password shows up as only "xx", everything after the
';' is cutoff.

PC> ';' is part of my Areafix password.

PC> Not a bad bug, just thought you'd like to know about it.

 PE> What a shame.  ";" begins a comment.  I'll have to think
 PE> about that.  If I were to make it ignore ";" within
"" then
 PE> that would make it dependent on the command formatting.  But
 PE> I suppose that's no worse than assuming people don't want to
 PE> type ";" as part of their commands.  BFN.  Paul.

It would be a lot easier to write the parser to allow an escape flag using
something like "\;" or "~;" if someone really, really,
really needed a significant semicolon.  Of course, if someone happened to
need the escape flag itself, then you could escape it like "\\"
or "~~"...
 
-- Mike


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