Author: Jeremy Harris Date: To: exim-users Subject: Re: [exim] How to allow delimiter characters in delimited strings?
Marc Haber wrote: > hostname:username:cleartext-password
>
> so that ${extract{1}{:} can be used to obtain the user name and
> ${extract{2}{:} yields the cleartext password.
>
> While defining this, we didn't think of user names and passwords
> containing colons :-(
You could transform the original name (etc) when building your
file, converting ":" to, say, "|" and an original "|" to "||".
Then after the extract, "||" back to "|" and "|" followed by anything
but "|" back to ":".
Mind, I've not bothered to work out a ${sg} to do this, so it
may not be possible.
