Re: [HTCondor-users] Single quotes in DAG 'VARS'

["R. Kent Wenger" <wenger@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, 18 Jan 2013, Brian Candler wrote:

> http://research.cs.wisc.edu/htcondor/manual/current/2_10DAGMan_Applications.html#SECTION003107200000000000000
> says: "Unfortunately, it is not possible to have single quote marks within
> these values."
>
> Can someone explain why this restriction is in place?

It's a result of the DAGMan code for parsing the DAG file.  I looked into 
this quite a while ago, and, unfortunately, fixing the problem would mean 
a pretty major re-write of the DAG parsing code.  There's no reason it 
*can't* be done, it's just that, at that time at least, other things were 
a higher priority.  (It's certainly not a restriction that we *want*; I 
think that case just wasn't considered when the parsing code was written.)

If there are other people on the mailing list who need this feature, 
please let us know -- maybe this deserves to get bumped up to a higher 
priority...

Kent Wenger
CHTC Team