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Re: Which content should be escaped?

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Markus Elfring <Markus.Elfring@web.de> wrote:
>> We have to trade one form escaping instead of another, but the
>> escaping we have to do now is in the body of the static template, to
>> ensure it is a valid here-doc, not in the variable being substituted,
>> which has "wild and wooly" run-time contents.
>>
>> The template is more "static" relative to the contents of the wild
>> and wooly variable being substituted. We can just write the template
>> correctly by hand, and that's it.
> 
> I would agree to your advice in the general situation. The simple test
> data I started the clarification with fits to your view.
>
> But I find that the real template files have got such constraints that
> the here-document rules are not useful there.

Have you considered using cpp?

template1.txt:

  +++++++++++++
  #include REPL
  *************

replacement1.txt:

  ABC
  XYZ

  cpp -P -nostdinc -xc -DREPL="\"replacement1.txt\"" template1.txt

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Escaping of line breaks for text replacement Markus Elfring <Markus.Elfring@web.de> - 2014-03-02 14:00 +0100
  Re: Escaping of line breaks for text replacement jt@toerring.de (Jens Thoms Toerring) - 2014-03-02 15:49 +0000
    Re: Escaping of line breaks for text replacement Markus Elfring <Markus.Elfring@web.de> - 2014-03-03 08:38 +0100
  Re: Escaping of line breaks for text replacement dave.gma+news002@googlemail.com.invalid (Dave Sines) - 2014-03-02 16:52 +0000
    Re: Escaping of line breaks for text replacement Kaz Kylheku <kaz@kylheku.com> - 2014-03-02 17:53 +0000
      Re: Escaping of line breaks for text replacement Kaz Kylheku <kaz@kylheku.com> - 2014-03-02 20:27 +0000
        Re: Escaping of line breaks for text replacement dave.gma+news002@googlemail.com.invalid (Dave Sines) - 2014-03-03 16:17 +0000
          Re: Escaping of line breaks for text replacement Kaz Kylheku <kaz@kylheku.com> - 2014-03-03 17:44 +0000
            Re: Escaping of line breaks for text replacement Geoff Clare <geoff@clare.See-My-Signature.invalid> - 2014-03-04 13:30 +0000
    Re: Escaping of line breaks for text replacement Markus Elfring <Markus.Elfring@web.de> - 2014-03-02 20:50 +0100
      Re: Escaping of line breaks for text replacement dave.gma+news002@googlemail.com.invalid (Dave Sines) - 2014-03-03 16:52 +0000
    Re: Escaping of line breaks for text replacement Markus Elfring <Markus.Elfring@web.de> - 2014-03-03 09:24 +0100
    Re: Escaping of line breaks for text replacement Markus Elfring <Markus.Elfring@web.de> - 2014-03-03 12:55 +0100
      Re: Escaping of line breaks for text replacement dave.gma+news002@googlemail.com.invalid (Dave Sines) - 2014-03-03 17:02 +0000
        Re: Escaping of line breaks for text replacement Markus Elfring <Markus.Elfring@web.de> - 2014-03-06 12:02 +0100
          Re: Escaping of line breaks for text replacement dave.gma+news002@googlemail.com.invalid (Dave Sines) - 2014-03-06 18:51 +0000
            Re: Escaping of line breaks for text replacement Markus Elfring <Markus.Elfring@web.de> - 2014-03-06 20:48 +0100
              Re: Escaping of line breaks for text replacement dave.gma+news002@googlemail.com.invalid (Dave Sines) - 2014-03-06 22:59 +0000
                Re: Escaping of line breaks for text replacement Kaz Kylheku <kaz@kylheku.com> - 2014-03-07 06:38 +0000
                Re: Escaping of line breaks for text replacement Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2014-03-07 13:33 +0000
                Re: Escaping of line breaks for text replacement dave.gma+news002@googlemail.com.invalid (Dave Sines) - 2014-03-07 15:08 +0000
                Re: Escaping of line breaks for text replacement Markus Elfring <Markus.Elfring@web.de> - 2014-03-07 11:23 +0100
                Re: Escaping of line breaks for text replacement dave.gma+news002@googlemail.com.invalid (Dave Sines) - 2014-03-07 14:43 +0000
                Re: Escaping of line breaks for text replacement Markus Elfring <Markus.Elfring@web.de> - 2014-03-07 17:23 +0100
                Re: Escaping of line breaks for text replacement dave.gma+news002@googlemail.com.invalid (Dave Sines) - 2014-03-07 19:53 +0000
                Bash 4.3.0 escape expansion (was: Re: Escaping of line breaks for text replacement) dave.gma+news002@googlemail.com.invalid (Dave Sines) - 2014-03-08 12:26 +0000
                Re: Bash 4.3.0 escape expansion (was: Re: Escaping of line breaks for text replacement) Kaz Kylheku <kaz@kylheku.com> - 2014-03-08 20:05 +0000
                Re: Bash 4.3.0 escape expansion Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2014-03-09 03:48 +0000
                Re: Bash 4.3.0 escape expansion dave.gma+news002@googlemail.com.invalid (Dave Sines) - 2014-03-09 13:21 +0000
  Re: Escaping of line breaks for text replacement Kaz Kylheku <kaz@kylheku.com> - 2014-03-02 18:11 +0000
    Re: Escaping of line breaks for text replacement Markus Elfring <Markus.Elfring@web.de> - 2014-03-02 20:08 +0100
      Re: Escaping of line breaks for text replacement Kaz Kylheku <kaz@kylheku.com> - 2014-03-02 20:35 +0000
        Re: Which content should be escaped? Markus Elfring <Markus.Elfring@web.de> - 2014-03-03 10:30 +0100
          Re: Which content should be escaped? dave.gma+news002@googlemail.com.invalid (Dave Sines) - 2014-03-04 14:04 +0000
            Re: Which content should be escaped? Kaz Kylheku <kaz@kylheku.com> - 2014-03-04 17:32 +0000
  Re: Escaping of line breaks for text replacement Siri Cruz <chine.bleu@yahoo.com> - 2014-03-07 02:47 -0800

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