[itsdb] Escaping @

Stephan Oepen oe at csli.Stanford.EDU
Sat Apr 14 18:00:14 CEST 2007


hi francis,

> how should one escape @ in tsdb item files?
> 
> For the moment I am using full width @ instead...
> U+FF20 FULLWIDTH COMMERCIAL AT

for string-valued fields in tsdb(1) data files, the following holds:

  @       --> \s
  newline --> \n
  \       --> \\

slow as it can be at times, it is really a full-text DBMS :-).

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