Re: quotes in arrays

From: Renaud Deraison (deraisonat_private)
Date: Wed Apr 30 2003 - 13:53:37 PDT

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    On Wed, Apr 30, 2003 at 04:40:48PM -0400, sulloat_private wrote:
> I was trying to update no404.nasl & found that if I put a quote (escaped) as one
> of the errmsg elements, I was getting a nasl error. However, in the docs it
> seems to say it should work.  This is latest Nessus engine.
> 
> string I tried:
> errmsg[21] = "name=qt id=\"search\" size=40 value=\" \""; 
> 
> error:
> parse error, expecting `';''[20528]() 
> 
> What's my problem? It needs to have the "s in there so it can verify the text
> box is blank (therefore meaning the file wasn't found and the search page was
> given).

Quotes can't be escaped that way. Use '' as the quotes instead (warning
: '' have the same properties for string(n), that is, '\n' means 0x0A)

So you want :

errmsg[21] = 'name=qt id="search" size=40 value=" "';


Shall I add it in no404.nasl ?

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