[PATCH] Continuation lines

[Holger Weiss]

* Ethan Galstad <nagios at nagios.org> [2007-12-09 10:53]:
> Holger Weiss wrote:
> > The attached patch adds support for using continuation lines throughout
> > all configuration files: If the last character before a newline is a
> > backslash, the backslash will be stripped, and if the second last
> > character is not a backslash, the following line will be appended prior
> > to parsing.
> > 
> > base/utils.c (and cgi/cgiutils.c) had an mmap_fgets_multiline() function
> > already, but the function wasn't used anywhere and it didn't work out of
> > the box.
> 
> Thanks for the note and patch Holger.  I must have forgotten to finish 
> implementing this in the past.  I fixed the bug in the original function 
> and have posted the fixes to CVS.

Thanks a lot, though the following line is now appended if and only if
two backslashes are used.  From the original function, I assumed the
idea was to append the following line if the current line ends with a
backslash _unless_ this backslash was escaped using another backslash.
IMO, doing it this way round would be more intuitive as it's a common
way to implement continuation lines.

Holger

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