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Wireshark-dev: Re: [Wireshark-dev] Controlling Tshark output format

From: "Douglas Pratley" <Douglas.pratley@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 13 Feb 2007 09:04:07 -0000
Thanks - I obviously didn't look well enough. That solves that
problem...

-----Original Message-----
From: wireshark-dev-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:wireshark-dev-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Guy Harris
Sent: 12 February 2007 17:35
To: Developer support list for Wireshark
Subject: Re: [Wireshark-dev] Controlling Tshark output format

Douglas Pratley wrote:

> b) I didn't want to restrict the possible names of fields. So far, all
> the ones in Wireshark are "sensible" strings, but I can't find any
code
> that restricts them, so they might contain commas, spaces, etc.

See the loop in proto_register_field_init() which scans hfinfo->abbrev 
to make sure it only contains alphanumerics, "-", "_", and ".".
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