Number: 5
Title: Backslashes handled improperly
Submitter: Marko Mäkelä Marko.Makela@hut.fi
Date: Apr 10 2001
Subsys: Dot
Version: 1.7.5
System: *-*-
Severity: minor
Problem:
The documentation says that special characters, such as the double quote, can be quoted with a backslash. It doesn't say anything about quoting backslashes. When "\" is written on a label, dotty displays two backslashes, and "dot -Tps" generates Postscript code that seems to loop infinitely. Also, when saving graphs, "dotty" does not quote backslashes and creates invalid "dot" files.
Input:
graph G { a [label="\"] }
Comments: It doesn't seem to be a bug in the lexer, but a bug in later stages.
Owner: north/ek
Status: Fixed (17 Jan 2002)