Escape commas in std::vector<std::string> JOmnifactory parameters

[ruse-traveler]

I recently encountered an issue working on EICrecon that seems to be related to JANA2 parsing std::vector<std::string> parameters of a JOmnifactory...

To resolve eic/EICrecon#1669, I modified an algorithm (see here) to accept a vector of expressions stored as strings with the intent of providing a way to map one set of readout indices onto another. For example:

phi-fmod(phi,5)

However, the expression that gets passed to the algorithm is:

phi-fmod(phi

This seems to be JANA2 splitting on the , in the expression. Would it be possible to escape commas in strings (maybe like fmod(phi\,5)) so that the string is passed to the algorithm as a whole?

[nathanwbrei]

I agree it would be great to support this feature. I'll add it to the roadmap for the next release.

[ruse-traveler]

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