Illegal characters in variable definition

[paul.jobb]

Hi;

I'm wanting to enter a regular expression in a variable value and am having a problem with the escape character \ . I am using 2014r2.0, XI 2012 used to allow it.

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[slansing]

Usually you have to double up that escape character because of how it is perceived in the database, have you tried doubling it?

[paul.jobb]

oh yes, still the same thing with \\ and \\\\

[lmiltchev]

I tested this on a clean 2014R2.0 system and still got the "Illegal characters in variable definition." message because of the "\" character... Are you sure this ever worked for you in 2.0?

[paul.jobb]

No it has never allowed me to add it in XI 2014 any version, I never reported it because I didn't need to use it until now

It does allow it to be added on an XI 2012 server however, just tested that on an old server no problem

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[abrist]

This may be due to some over zealous validation/sanitation as the character is acceptable in a number of other fields in ccm objects. I opened up a bug report: task_id=4842

[paul.jobb]

Thank You

[abrist]

No problem. Watch the next couple release notes for reference to a fix. Cheers.