Re: Leading newlines in script output

[Kris Katterjohn <katterjohn () gmail com>]

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On 09/29/2010 09:29 PM, David Fifield wrote:
> The code in formatScriptOutput strips leading newlines from the output
> (and my fix keeps it this way). I'm sure many script writers have been
> annoyed by this. To force the first line of output to be on a line after
> the script id, we have things like this:
>
> scripts/asn-query.nse:  return (" \n%s"):format( table.concat( output, "\n" ) )
> scripts/citrix-brute-xml.nse:   return " \n" .. result
> scripts/qscan.nse:      return " \n" .. report(stats)
>
> This trick of starting the output with whitespace to fool the newline
> remover is also used in stdnse.format_output. I can't think of a reason
> why we want newlines removed. Let's get rid of it?

Sounds good to me!

> David Fifield

Cheers,
Kris Katterjohn

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