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| author | Phil Pennock <pdp@exim.org> | 2012-01-03 02:41:57 -0500 |
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| committer | Phil Pennock <pdp@exim.org> | 2012-01-03 02:41:57 -0500 |
| commit | 8ebb1c9ea93eb27500756a578640d890b53264d3 (patch) | |
| tree | f790c26264f249c24c8d4db2cb196f3e446c2865 /doc/doc-docbook | |
| parent | 4a891427d0a3b443ab636fa6c978d2367d077895 (diff) | |
bool{} is false for empty strings
fixes bug 1193
reported by Jasen Betts.
Diffstat (limited to 'doc/doc-docbook')
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/doc-docbook/spec.xfpt | 5 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/doc/doc-docbook/spec.xfpt b/doc/doc-docbook/spec.xfpt index 951cd5286..12d813781 100644 --- a/doc/doc-docbook/spec.xfpt +++ b/doc/doc-docbook/spec.xfpt @@ -9871,7 +9871,10 @@ zero. This condition turns a string holding a true or false representation into a boolean state. It parses &"true"&, &"false"&, &"yes"& and &"no"& (case-insensitively); also positive integer numbers map to true if non-zero, -false if zero. Leading and trailing whitespace is ignored. +false if zero. +An empty string is treated as false. +Leading and trailing whitespace is ignored; +thus a string consisting only of whitespace is false. All other string values will result in expansion failure. When combined with ACL variables, this expansion condition will let you |