Author: Wakko Warner Date: To: Jeremy Harris CC: exim-users Subject: Re: [exim] How to allow delimiter characters in delimited strings?
Jeremy Harris wrote: > 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.
Too bad this won't work:
this:that:"some:password"
Maybe extract could handle this, or they could change the passwd format to
something that extract does handle, like:
host=this user=that pass=some:password
which say pass="some=password" would work as well.
Unfortunately, it's probably not an option.
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