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Carriage return in OCL expressions [message #60028]

Fri, 01 August 2008 06:24

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Hi,

I was trying to create a String containing a carriage return through an
OCLExpression such as 'random string'.concat('\n') and ended up with a
java String looking as "random string\\n" so OCL automatically escaped
my "\". Indeed the String is then exactly as I wrote it ... except it
means I cannot concatenate control characters in an OCL String.

Is that the expected behavior for OCL Strings? If so, is there a known
way to have a carriage return inserted into a String via OCL?

Thanks

Laurent Goubet
Obeo

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Re: Carriage return in OCL expressions [message #60100 is a reply to message #60028]

Fri, 01 August 2008 09:26

Eclipse User

Originally posted by: cdamus.zeligsoft.com

Hi, Laurent,

The OCL Specification does not make any provision for handling of
control characters. What do you get if you simply embed a newline in
the string, as in

'this is
an example'

Actually, I had expected that '\n' would work. AFAIK, the grammar is
supposed to have implemented that.

Would you mind raising a bug?

Thanks,

Christian

laurent Goubet wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I was trying to create a String containing a carriage return through an
> OCLExpression such as 'random string'.concat('\n') and ended up with a
> java String looking as "random string\\n" so OCL automatically escaped
> my "\". Indeed the String is then exactly as I wrote it ... except it
> means I cannot concatenate control characters in an OCL String.
>
> Is that the expected behavior for OCL Strings? If so, is there a known
> way to have a carriage return inserted into a String via OCL?
>
> Thanks
>
> Laurent Goubet
> Obeo

Re: Carriage return in OCL expressions [message #60124 is a reply to message #60100]

Fri, 01 August 2008 10:13

Eclipse User

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Christian,

Well in my case embedding a plain new line in the String is not a
solution as the project I'm working is in its early stages and a plain
new line would have to be handled too ;).

I raised https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=242880 to record
this problem.

Laurent Goubet
Obeo

Christian W. Damus a

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