On Fri, 16 Aug 2002, John Horne wrote:
> Yes it is allowed (we use it - exim4.10). However I too had a problem with
> '(' some time ago. I think the solution was to put the expression in
> double-quotes; it then worked fine. However, you have to double up '\',
> escape dollar signs etc etc :-) Is this a bug? Not sure I reported the
> problem to the list.
No, it is not a bug. It is documented:
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There are two ways in which a data value can be input:
. If the text contains no white space then it can be typed verbatim.
However, if it is part of a condition, it must also be free of round
brackets (parentheses), as these are used for grouping in conditions.
. Otherwise it must be enclosed in double quotation marks. In this case,
the character \ (backslash) is treated as an 'escape character' ....
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... er, and you don't have to escape dollar signs just because you put
the string in quotes. Just the backslashes.
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