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| ID | Project | Category | View Status | Date Submitted | Last Update |
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| 0024465 | Runner | HTML5 | Public | 2016-11-01 23:43 | 2018-08-13 14:12 |
| Reporter | YellowAfterlife | Assigned To | YellowAfterlife | ||
| Priority | Low | Severity | C - General | Reproducibility | 100% |
| Status | Closed | Resolution | Duplicate | ||
| Platform | HTML5 | OS | Windows 8 | OS Version | 8.1 |
| Product Version | Pre-2.1.3 | ||||
| Target Version | 2.1.4 | Fixed in Version | 2.1.4 | ||
| Summary | 0024465: Functions: ini_write_string() does not escape double quotes - breaks JSON. | ||||
| Description | Doing ini_write_string("a", "b", '1"2') will write [a] b="1"2" and ini_read_string will only read "1". This means that you cannot store JSON in INI files as-is because it'll only read the data until the first keypair. Example attached. | ||||
| Additional Information | Doing string_replace_all(json_encode(map), '"', "'") is a viable workaround. | ||||
| Tags | No tags attached. | ||||
| 1.4 Found In | 7.7.1338 | ||||
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| duplicate of | 0017677 | Closed | YellowAfterlife | HTML5: Cannot read INI entries stored from ds_grid_write() |
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Double quotes are not the only things that need better handling. Square brackets, spaces, equal signs, comments (# and ;) all break INI functions. For years I've seen people advocating the use of ds_*_write() and ds_*_read() functions with INI files, not knowing that their tendency to produce JSON output on HTML5 would kill their save data. This is the reason why I am a JSON purist on GML who never mixes it with INI. You can count on the inadequacies of INI functions to break it. |