Escape pipe characters and newlines in markdown table cells#10
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Escape pipe characters in markdown table cells
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@copilot Property values containing newline characters (\n or \r) will break the markdown table formatting. Multi-line values should be escaped (e.g., replaced with paces) or truncated to maintain a valid markdown table structure. For example, if a rich_text or other property value contains line breaks, it will create invalid markdown table rows |
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I've implemented newline character handling in commit 13b9251. The solution replaces all newline variants ( Warning Firewall rules blocked me from connecting to one or more addresses (expand for details)I tried to connect to the following addresses, but was blocked by firewall rules:
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Escape pipe characters and newlines in markdown table cells
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Property names and values containing pipe characters (
|) or newline characters (\n,\r,\r\n) break markdown table formatting. For example, a property named "A | B" or containing "value | text" corrupts the table structure, and multi-line values create invalid markdown table rows.Changes
escapeTableCellCharacters()helper: Replaces|with\|and newline characters with spaces in table cell contentconvertPropertiesToMarkdownTable(): Escapes both property names and values before insertion\n,\r,\r\n, multiple newlines, and combinations with pipes (9 tests)Examples
Pipe characters - Before:
| Name | Title | Test | Page | <!-- Broken table structure -->Pipe characters - After:
Newlines - Before:
| Description | Line 1 Line 2 | <!-- Broken table structure -->Newlines - After:
| Description | Line 1 Line 2 | <!-- Newlines replaced with spaces -->✨ Let Copilot coding agent set things up for you — coding agent works faster and does higher quality work when set up for your repo.