[arm-allstar] spanning config parameters over multiple lines

[David McGough]

Barry,

As I said:  "Splitting lines using a backslash isn't proper syntax."

What I was implying is that the asterisk file parser doesn't support
splitting lines using a backslash.


73, David K4FXC



On Thu, 21 Apr 2022, Barry Jackson wrote:

> On 21/04/2022 12:57, David McGough wrote:
> > 
> > Hi Barry,
> > 
> > The asterisk *.conf files are very rudimentary "INI" style key/value
> > files.
> > 
> > Splitting lines using a backslash isn't proper syntax.  Here are articles
> > describing the generalized file format:
> > 
> > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/INI_file
> 
>  From your above wikipedia link:
> 
> "Some support "line continuation", where a backslash followed 
> immediately by EOL (end-of-line) causes the line break to be ignored, 
> and the "logical line" to be continued on the next actual line from the 
> INI file."
> 
> So it is proper syntax but maybe not supported.
> 
> > 
> > Note that I'm not sure if all the formatting explained in the Wikipedia
> > article is supported in Asterisk. The Asterisk version 1.4.x file parser
> > is pretty rudimentary.
> > 
> > https://wiki.asterisk.org/wiki/display/AST/Asterisk+Configuration+Files
> 
> Yes that does not help at all :(
> 
> Will need to do some testing I guess.
> 
> Thanks anyway,
> 
> 73
> Barry
> 
> > 
> > 
> > 73, David K4FXC
> > 
>