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| author | Philip Hazel <ph10@hermes.cam.ac.uk> | 2007-02-26 14:07:04 +0000 |
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| committer | Philip Hazel <ph10@hermes.cam.ac.uk> | 2007-02-26 14:07:04 +0000 |
| commit | ec95d1a6a6c015844e412572b6e5a185b072e01e (patch) | |
| tree | 8d96e463e9383d3833f8ecd9d43c737aa3d94723 /doc | |
| parent | 3339358381577eb97a6fc6a64115d156369377a7 (diff) | |
MH's patch for allowing control characters as list separators.
Diffstat (limited to 'doc')
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/doc-txt/ChangeLog | 4 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/doc-txt/NewStuff | 18 |
2 files changed, 20 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/doc/doc-txt/ChangeLog b/doc/doc-txt/ChangeLog index 6e61fa9b6..3202cc9c1 100644 --- a/doc/doc-txt/ChangeLog +++ b/doc/doc-txt/ChangeLog @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -$Cambridge: exim/doc/doc-txt/ChangeLog,v 1.484 2007/02/20 15:58:02 ph10 Exp $ +$Cambridge: exim/doc/doc-txt/ChangeLog,v 1.485 2007/02/26 14:07:04 ph10 Exp $ Change log file for Exim from version 4.21 ------------------------------------------- @@ -131,6 +131,8 @@ PH/29 SMTP synchronization checks are implemented when a command is read - HELO/EHLO and after the predata ACL, and likewise for MAIL and RCPT when pipelining has not been advertised. +PH/30 MH's patch to allow iscntrl() characters to be list separators. + Exim version 4.66 ----------------- diff --git a/doc/doc-txt/NewStuff b/doc/doc-txt/NewStuff index 677ab21aa..d39c6d3e2 100644 --- a/doc/doc-txt/NewStuff +++ b/doc/doc-txt/NewStuff @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -$Cambridge: exim/doc/doc-txt/NewStuff,v 1.142 2007/02/14 15:33:40 ph10 Exp $ +$Cambridge: exim/doc/doc-txt/NewStuff,v 1.143 2007/02/26 14:07:04 ph10 Exp $ New Features in Exim -------------------- @@ -375,6 +375,22 @@ Version 4.67 continue = <some expansion> condition = ${if eq{0}{<some expansion>}{true}{true}} +18. It is now possible to use newline and other control characters (those with + values less than 32, plus DEL) as separators in lists. Such separators must + be provided literally at the time the list is processed, but the string + expansion that happens first means that you can write them using normal + escape sequences. For example, if a new-line separated list of domains is + generated by a lookup, you can now process it directly by a line such as + this: + + domains = <\n ${lookup mysql{.....}} + + This avoids having to change the list separator in such data. Unlike + printing character separators, which can be included in list items by + doubling, it is not possible to include a control character as data when it + is set as the separator. Two such characters in succession are interpreted + as enclosing an empty list item. + Version 4.66 ------------ |