From bad1b1368031ce0b1de1517ca696d83351941eed Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: John Wiegley <johnw@newartisans.com>
Date: Sun, 28 Jun 2009 16:00:29 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] value_t::dump now faithfully represents strings

---
 src/value.cc | 16 +++++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 15 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/src/value.cc b/src/value.cc
index b19ad956..702b889e 100644
--- a/src/value.cc
+++ b/src/value.cc
@@ -1591,7 +1591,21 @@ void value_t::dump(std::ostream& out, const bool relaxed) const
     break;
 
   case STRING:
-    out << '"' << as_string() << '"';
+    out << '"';
+    foreach (const char& ch, as_string()) {
+      switch (ch) {
+      case '"':
+	out << "\\\"";
+	break;
+      case '\\':
+	out << "\\\\";
+	break;
+      default:
+	out << ch;
+	break;
+      }
+    }
+    out << '"';
     break;
 
   case MASK: