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In Delphi the \ does not escape a string ending, in Delphi if you want a ' you type:

StringVariable := 'Foo'' bar'; // comments

And it works as expected, but in an answer on StackOverflow I've always noticed a bug.

I've been able to create a small test case for this bug

StringVariable  := '\'; // comments

I think formatter has a preference for the c# / c style languages where the \ escapes the next char, so I'm not sure if this is a bug or a feature, this might even be a weird way of asking for a way to instruct the formatter that it's dealing Delphi...

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It's open source -- submit a patch!

http://code.google.com/p/google-code-prettify/

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  • should have checked out which library you used instead of assuming that just like mark-down you created a fork from a known library. Will check out how viable a patch is. – Davy Landman Jul 18 '09 at 7:05
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Your last suggestion, to make the syntax highlighter language-aware, is the only fool-proof solution for this and similar problems. Hopefully one day this feature will be added to SO.

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