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Create Geodatabase Connection mishandles escape characters

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05-11-2016 11:51 AM
ShaneBuscher
Frequent Contributor

The Create Geodatabase Connection fails when passing an instance parameter containing escape characters. For instance, passing 'nomsqapp4d\nomsqapp4d' fails because the '\n' is interpreted inside the arcpy tool code as a new line. This can be verified by calling the function via Python and through running the tool itself in ArcGIS Desktop.

Note that the example instance name is a standard company format and can't be changed. Is there any way around this issue or should this be logged as a bug?

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ChristianWells
Esri Regular Contributor

Joshua Bixby​, I'll use this thread to advocate for it with our product team.

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