Re: [boost] Reading DOT files with Boost.Graph

From: Ronald Garcia (garcia_at_[hidden])
Date: 2007-06-20 12:27:47

Hi Marshall,

On Jun 19, 2007, at 3:25 PM, Marshall Clow wrote:

> So, I'm trying to read some dot files (that are generated by a tool
> looking at a perforce depot.
> Most of the files "read_graphviz" just returns false. So, I started
> cutting down my test cases to see what's going on.
>
> Here's what I found:
>
> digraph G {
>     a0 [ label = "//depot/path/to/file_1" ];
>     a1 [ label = "//depot/path/to/file_2" ];
>
>     a0 -> a1 [ color=gray ];
> }
>
> works great, but
>
> digraph G {
>     a0 [ label = "//depot/path/to/file_1#4" ];
>     a1 [ label = "//depot/path/to/file_2#9" ];
>
>     a0 -> a1 [ color=gray ];
> }
>
> fails. Apparently the DOT reader doesn't like "#"s in quoted  
> strings. :-(

Thanks for catching this.  There was a bug in the part of the  
graphviz reader that was reading strings.  I wasn't even able to get  
your first example to parse correctly, but now both versions seem to  
parse just fine.  The fix has been checked into CVS.

Cheers,
ron