[GROOVY-552] Double-quoted string containing just a backslash

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Duplicate
• Affects Version/s: 1.0-beta-5
• Fix Version/s: 1.0-beta-8
• Component/s: parser
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Giulio Piancastelli
• Created: 27/Jun/04 17:15
• Updated: 16/Dec/04 11:43
• Resolved: 08/Dec/04 09:18

Description

It's impossible to build a double-quoted string containing just one backslash. Here's the output you get when you try it on groovysh:

1> print "
"
discarding invalid text:
groovysh script: 1: unterminated string literal
print "
"
^