Reece Dunn wrote:
John Torjo wrote:
Rob Stewart wrote:
Agreed, but pipes ("|") are easier to grok:
"<elem> | </elem><elem> | </elem>"
That's fine too.
This again runs into the problem of what if you want '|' in your format string? One possibility is to use non-printable characters, e.g. \xFF, but I don't think this would have widespread support.
Implementing escaping for the above will complicate the evaluation of the format string as you cannot use str.find( "|" ). One possibility is to check if '\' exists before '|' after a find; if yes, repeat. Thus '\' becomes context-sensitive. This approach leads to "< |\\| >" for "< a\\b\\c >" formatting being ill-defined.
I am optimistic and know you'll find a solution. The same goes for when you use any string in C++ code. If you want '"' character, you escape it. So, just make it easy to escape a few chars ;) Best, John -- John Torjo -- john@torjo.com Contributing editor, C/C++ Users Journal -- "Win32 GUI Generics" -- generics & GUI do mix, after all -- http://www.torjo.com/win32gui/ -- v1.4 - save_dlg - true binding of your data to UI controls! + easily add validation rules (win32gui/examples/smart_dlg)