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<title>Arrays</title>

quotes around any individual array element. You <emphasis>must</> do so

if the element value would otherwise confuse the array-value parser.

For example, elements containing curly braces, commas (or whatever the

delimiter character is), double quotes, backslashes, or leadingwhite

space must be double-quoted. To put a double quote or backslash in a

quoted array element value, precede it with a backslash. Alternatively,

youcan use backslash-escaping to protect all data characters that would

delimiter character is), double quotes, backslashes, or leadingor trailing

whitespace must be double-quoted. To put a double quote or backslash in a

quoted array element value, precede it with a backslash. Alternatively, you

can use backslash-escaping to protect all data characters that would

otherwise be taken as array syntax.

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