From 8a344f0ba6938591dc91a5fc2218eaa89c6fecd6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Rainer Gerhards <rgerhards@adiscon.com>
Date: Wed, 9 Jan 2013 15:58:36 +0100
Subject: slightly improved config parser error messages when invalid escapes
 happen

---
 ChangeLog       | 3 +++
 grammar/lexer.l | 3 ++-
 2 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index df32f47e..166ca0a7 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,4 +1,7 @@
 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
+Version 7.2.6  [v7-stable] 2013-01-??
+- slightly improved config parser error messages when invalid escapes happen
+----------------------------------------------------------------------------
 Version 7.2.5  [v7-stable] 2013-01-08
 - build system cleanup (thanks to Michael Biebl for this!)
 - bugfix: omelasticsearch did not properly compile on some platforms
diff --git a/grammar/lexer.l b/grammar/lexer.l
index 63eaa8ce..b7966369 100644
--- a/grammar/lexer.l
+++ b/grammar/lexer.l
@@ -216,7 +216,8 @@ int fileno(FILE *stream);
 <COMMENT>([^*]|\n)+|.
 <INOBJ>#.*$	/* skip comments in input */
 <INOBJ>[ \n\t]
-<INOBJ>.			{ dbgprintf("INOBJ: invalid char '%s'\n", yytext); }
+<INOBJ>.			{ parser_errmsg("invalid character '%s' - is there an invalid "
+					        "escape sequence somewhere?", yytext); }
 \$[a-z]+.*$			{ /* see comment on $IncludeConfig above */
 				  if(!strncasecmp(yytext, "$includeconfig ", 14)) {
 					yyless(14);
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