CrLF in Tag values

[Curtis]

I'm using -stay_open in my program to send commands to exiftool. 

When I write a tag whose value contains CrLf (or just Cr or Lf) how do I escape them in the command input file?  I tried surrounding the whole value with " " but that did not work.

I'm not using -struct, but would I escape these characters the same as for -struct tag values using '|' ? (that does not seem to work)

Thanks!
Curtis

[Phil Harvey]

Hi Curtis,

The newline is used as a separator for the -@ option, so you can't send one directly.  However, see FAQ 21 examples b, c and d are ways around this.

- Phil

[Curtis]

   Thanks Phil that did the trick!