taler-typescript-core

commit cd855a52e4b61839ee5cf0092158bdd035a2612c
parent 3ddab3227044d1b39c3a4cd85a946cb408aca1a2
Author: Florian Dold <dold@taler.net>
Date:   Tue, 21 Jul 2026 12:36:44 +0200

util: normalize tabs and carriage returns before parsing a config line

Splitting on "\n" leaves the "\r" of a CRLF file on every line, where it
stopped the comment pattern from matching: a comment became a parse error,
or, if it contained an "=", a live option assignment.

Diffstat:
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packages/taler-util/src/talerconfig.ts
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9
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1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/packages/taler-util/src/talerconfig.ts b/packages/taler-util/src/talerconfig.ts
@@ -496,8 +496,15 @@ export class Configuration {
     let currentSection: string | undefined = undefined;
 
     const lines = s.split("\n");
-    for (const line of lines) {
+    for (const rawLine of lines) {
       lineNo++;
+      // Tabs and carriage returns count as whitespace and are rewritten
+      // before the line is classified, as GNUnet's configuration.c does.
+      // Splitting on "\n" leaves the "\r" of a CRLF file at the end of every
+      // line, where it stops the comment pattern from matching: a comment
+      // then falls through to the parse error, or, if it contains an "=", is
+      // taken for a live option assignment.
+      const line = rawLine.replace(/[\t\r]/g, " ");
       if (reEmptyLine.test(line)) {
         continue;
       }