[Ruby 3.2] Add test for no extra escaping in error messages #1340
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eregon
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| it "is not modified with extra escaping of control characters and backslashes" do | ||
| out = ruby_exe('raise "\e[31mRed\x1b[0m error\\\message"', args: "2>&1", exit_status: 1) |
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Single-quoted string turns \\ into \, and we need two backslashes inside the double-quoted string, so this needs 3 or 4 backslashes to output 1.
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Let's do 4 then, 3 is quite hard to figure out and feels hacky
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Done. Actually, there seems to be no spec for backslash escaping at all, at least in language/string_spec.rb? Regexp quoting is probably relevant, but it relies on this.
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Right, though I suppose it's already pretty well tested directly in Prism as that's where most of that backslash handling happens (in string literals at least).
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Ruby no longer escapes control characters and backslashes in an error message. [Feature #18367]
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