[bug #58371] Table crashes with a commented newline in the columns

[Mohammad Akhlaghi]

URL:
  <https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?58371>

                 Summary: Table crashes with a commented newline in the
columns
                 Project: GNU Astronomy Utilities
            Submitted by: makhlaghi
            Submitted on: Fri 15 May 2020 01:33:32 AM BST
                Category: Table
                Severity: 3 - Normal
              Item Group: Crash
                  Status: In Progress
                 Privacy: Public
             Assigned to: makhlaghi
             Open/Closed: Open
         Discussion Lock: Any

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Details:

When using scripts and longer column arithmetic operations, it will often
happen that the author may want to break the line by commenting the new-line
character and going to the next, something like this:


asttable table.fits --columns='arith $1 $2 + \
                                     3 /'


But currently, when we make such a call, Table will crash, complaining that
there is no column called '\' (it thinks '\' is a column name).




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