backslash and expansion variable quirk in line log format string

[Jason Rankin]

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> A.L.M.Buxey at lboro.ac.uk
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> Subject: Re: backslash and expansion variable quirk in line log format string
> 
> Hi,
> 
> > ie
> > %{User-Name} is "fred"
> > "foo\\%{User-Name}",  logs "foo\%{User-Name}" to syslog
> 
> "foo\%{User-Name}" ?
> 
> 
> alan
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Hi Alan,
if I use a single '\' , I seem to get "foofred", where %{User-Name} = "fred".  It's got something to do with the string parsing and single \ characters as control chars, but I've missed something...

thanks
Jason