Dave, There is a recurring bug in the Boxes Admin Tool that none of us have been able to track down. It has been 'fixed' several times, each time causing the opposite problem in some sites, only to be 'fixed' back in the other direction. Note that scripts/boxtool and the Boxes Admin Tool accessed via the web interface are two very different things, and changing one will not affect the other. What the most recent CVS shows right now is correct operation on some sites, and excess quoting when re-displaying a saved box on others. Clicking "get" immediately after "save" on the sites that display the bug clears the excess quoting. I have spent a fair bit of time on this, trying to find out why two sites with absolutely letter-for-letter identical codebases installed with the same version of apache on the same computer with the same configuration acted differently - one showed the bug, the other one didn't. Hope this clears things up, and sorry I couldn't help any... -janra On Mon, 17 Dec 2007 08:00:33 -0800, Dave Hayes wrote: > When I go to grab a box from the database with the "Boxes" tool > (by clicking "Get Box"), I see that any "|" is automatically > escaped with a backslash. > > The problem is, apparently this is not what I want. If I get any box > with a '|' and then immediately save it, it breaks. All the pieces that > look like |foo| now become the literal "|foo|" and are not substituted > with their contents. (Sorry, I forget what you call these pieces.) > > I've temporarily worked around the problem by fixing scripts/boxtool to > use DBI's own escaping mechanism. There's a patch attached. However, > editing boxes that contain the |foo| constructs appears to be > fundamentally broken for me. > > What did I do wrong here? > ------ > Dave Hayes - Consultant - Altadena CA, USA - dave at jetcafe.org >>>> The opinions expressed above are entirely my own <<< > > A man stopped Nasrudin and asked him what day of the week it > was. "Couldn't tell you," said the Mulla. "I'm a stranger > in these parts. I don't know what days of the week they have > here." > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Scoop-help mailing list > Scoop-help at lists.kuro5hin.org > http://lists.kuro5hin.org/mailman/listinfo/scoop-help