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Cannot use Declare INI setting to declare empty string #430

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c-lipka opened this issue Jul 29, 2021 · 1 comment
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Cannot use Declare INI setting to declare empty string #430

c-lipka opened this issue Jul 29, 2021 · 1 comment
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c-lipka commented Jul 29, 2021

When using the (undocumented) string form of the Declare INI setting (using e.g. Declare='Foo=""'), the variable in question will be defined as ", rather than an empty string.

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On Ubuntu 20.04 found this to be true of both the ini and command line declare settings. Aside: The parsing code is somewhat different between the command line and ini declare approaches.

For more see:

http://news.povray.org/povray.unix/thread/%3C6107dba8%241%40news.povray.org%3E/

http://news.povray.org/[email protected]

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