Include Statement Breaks when Given Path with Certain Special Characters

[june128]

The #include statement breaks when it is given a path with certain special characters.

Here an example. The following source:

Results in:

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I think I see what's going on with the colons. The logic for parsing includes takes the first colon and interprets it as a separator between the actual path and a range/anchor thingy.

I'll dig into what's up with pluses eventually.

It feels like without changing range/anchor syntax and breaking backwards compatibility, a way to fix this is to introduce an escape character for colons that are part of the path.

Or maybe the path can be optionally wrapped in double quotes? I like that more.

[uint]

I finally (sorry) took a look. It looks like the plus is a different beast - the find_links() function uses regexp to find things and simply doesn't expect strings with pluses in them. Here it is.

Fixing this one is trivial. It seems to work fine after adding \+ to the regexp.

I'd be happy to make a pull request once we know how we want to handle colons!

[ehuss]

I would kinda prefer not to support colons in the path (and not deal with absolute Windows paths, or deal with an escaping system), but fixing other characters like + sounds good.

[june128]

Thanks for the work on this issue! I can confirm that the fix for the plus works.
If not supporting colons in paths is a product decision, this issue can be closed.