Wireshark · Wireshark-bugs: [Wireshark-bugs] [Bug 5819] Not possible to use "@" character in coloring rules.

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https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=5819

--- Comment #8 from Sake <sake@xxxxxxxxxx> 2011-04-13 07:46:42 PDT ---
(In reply to comment #6)
> (In reply to comment #4)
> > So to be able to save and load the colorfilters file, there needs to be code
> > written to escape the @ in some way.
> 
> Would it make sense to change the colorfilters file to use tab-separated values
> similar to UAT files?

Even though I like the idea of having tab-separated (color)filter files. It
does have a drawback. If you use a new version of wireshark installed that does
support tab-based filter files and you change a filter, the filter file will be
written tab-based. Moving back to a previous version of wireshark will make all
the filters invalid.

When the @ character is escaped, only the filters with an escaped @ will be
invalid.

For most users going back and forth between versions is not a big deal, but I
guess there is quite a few people that do move back and forth between different
versions. To me that is to big a cost for being able to use the @ in the name
or filter string of a coloring rule.

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