Parse error for valid EDN

[favetelinguis]

I have the following EDN string from a Babashka task that fail to parse in parseedn:

(parseedn-read-str "{ remake {:doc \"Text\"
                    :task (do (run 'pm-build)
                    (run 'db-stop)
                    (run 'db-rm)
                    (run 'db-create))}}")

Running the following in Clojure works fine

(edn/read-string "{
  remake {:doc \"Text\"
          :task (do (run 'pm-build)
                    (run 'db-stop)
                    (run 'db-rm)
                    (run 'db-create))}}")

[vemv]

Thanks for the report!

I'll try to repro.

Is there anything special in this input? It wouldn't seem so at first glance

[favetelinguis]

I dont think there is anything special. The code is more or less taken from the Babashka book on tasks.

[vemv]

It's the ' characters.

Let's see what we can do about them.

I don't see them in https://github.com/edn-format/edn though!

[borkdude]

In EDN the ' character is just a character like any other character and should be treated as such:

user=> (edn/read-string "(x y ' z)")
(x y ' z)

[teodorlu]

I also just hit this,

1. Wanted to use https://github.com/licht1stein/babashka.el to run my babashka tasks
2. parseedn crashed on quotes in tasks.

This is my bb.edn:

{:paths ["dev"]
 :tasks {create-post (exec 'tasks/create-post)}}

A workaround is to replace ' with quote characters everywhere. The following parses fine:

{:tasks {create-post (exec (quote tasks/create-post))}}