Commit 2211bcc7 authored by Andrew Wiik's avatar Andrew Wiik Committed by Dridi Boukelmoune

Add documentation for new long string format

parent 6f587a30
......@@ -84,7 +84,7 @@ Strings
Basic strings are enclosed in double quotes ``"``\ *...*\ ``"``, and
may not contain newlines. Long strings are enclosed in
``{"``\ *...*\ ``"}``. They may contain any character including single
``{"``\ *...*\ ``"}`` or ``"""``\ *...*\ ``"""``. They may contain any character including single
double quotes ``"``, newline and other control characters except for the
*NUL* (0x00) character.
......@@ -511,7 +511,7 @@ ban(STRING)
Either a literal string or a regular expression. Note that
*<arg>* does not use any of the string delimiters like ``"`` or
``{"``\ *...*\ ``"}`` used elsewhere in varnish. To match
``{"``\ *...*\ ``"}`` or ``"""``\ *...*\ ``"""`` used elsewhere in varnish. To match
against strings containing whitespace, regular expressions
containing ``\s`` can be used.
......
......@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ to do the "count-the-backslashes" polka::
regsub("barf", "(b)(a)(r)(f)", "\4\3\2p") -> "frap"
Long strings are enclosed in {" ... "}. They may contain any character
Long strings are enclosed in {" ... "} or """ ... """. They may contain any character
including ", newline and other control characters except for the NUL
(0x00) character. If you really want NUL characters in a string there
is a VMOD that makes it possible to create such strings.
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