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Clarification about newlines in multi-line strings and empty keys in quotes #286

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Clarification about newlines in multi-line strings and empty keys in quotes #286

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Clarify that multi-line basic strings can contain bare newlines
alexcrichton Jan 16, 2015
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Add examples clarifying that empty key quotes are invalid
alexcrichton Jan 16, 2015
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Expand Up @@ -164,9 +164,9 @@ key3 = """\
"""
```

Any Unicode character may be used except those that must be escaped: backslash
and the control characters (U+0000 to U+001F). Quotation marks need not be
escaped unless their presence would create a premature closing delimiter.
Any Unicode character or newline may be used except those that must be escaped:
backslash and the control characters (U+0000 to U+001F). Quotation marks need
not be escaped unless their presence would create a premature closing delimiter.

If you're a frequent specifier of Windows paths or regular expressions, then
having to escape backslashes quickly becomes tedious and error prone. To help,
Expand Down Expand Up @@ -415,7 +415,9 @@ All table names and keys must be non-empty.
[a..b]
[.b]
[.]
[""]
= "no key name" # not allowed
"" = 3 # not allowed
```

Array of Tables
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