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[Wayne Stambaugh <stambaughw@xxxxxxxxx>]

Yes, this should be corrected.  Double quotes in strings are quoted with
a backslash just like C strings.

On 1/24/2017 8:21 PM, Chris Pavlina wrote:
> In the file format specification at [1] via [2], we specify the
> following for string escapes:
> 
>> Here is a legal string with an embedded quote: leg"23
>> Here is the same string quoted, and because it is quoted the internal
>> quote must be duplicated: "leg""23"
> 
> This is NOT how we are actually quoting strings: we are using \".
> 
> I suggest updating the format document rather than the code, because:
> 
> 1) This avoids changing any actual files we write
> 2) Escaping quotes with "" is weird, especially considering we use
>    backslash escapes in other places - be consistent
> 
> But no matter how we fix it, this should be fixed; people are using
> these format documents to implement parsers (I just spoke to one).
> 
> [1] http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~stambaughw/kicad/doc-read-only/download/head:/1115%4016bec504-3128-0410-b3e8-8e38c2123bca:trunk%252Fkicad-doc%252Fdoc%252Fhelp%252Ffile_formats%252Ffile_formats.pdf/file_formats.pdf
> [2] http://kicad-pcb.org/help/file-formats/
>