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03/21/2023, 1:06 AM

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little-cartoon-10569

03/21/2023, 1:56 AM

Does \\ not work?

enough-caravan-98871

03/21/2023, 1:57 AM

No, it produces \\. That is what I have in the beginning and desire it there. After the .net, I desire a single \ but cannot get it to go.

little-cartoon-10569

03/21/2023, 1:58 AM

What language is it? Is there a different quote character?

enough-caravan-98871

03/21/2023, 1:59 AM

typescript

enough-caravan-98871

03/21/2023, 2:00 AM

i want an output of a UNC path, like \\<storageAccountName.file.core.windows.net\<shareName>.

little-cartoon-10569

03/21/2023, 2:00 AM

When I run

console.log("\\");

I see

enough-caravan-98871

03/21/2023, 2:01 AM

When I use a single backslash like what I have in the original example after .net, it makes what comes after it (fileShare.name) raw text. I am unable to escape it.

enough-caravan-98871

03/21/2023, 2:02 AM

That may be true with console.log. Not how it is working in Pulumi and typescript.

enough-caravan-98871

03/21/2023, 2:04 AM

My first part of "\\" shows \\ and I desire it there. I have tried three \\\, four \\\\, etc. No dice.

little-cartoon-10569

03/21/2023, 2:04 AM

Are you using typescript? That behaviour differs from what I'm seeing.

enough-caravan-98871

03/21/2023, 2:06 AM

yes, I am using typescript in Pulumi.

enough-caravan-98871

03/21/2023, 2:07 AM

Her is a line with no issues.

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export const fslProfilesUnc = pulumi.concat("\\", storageAccount.name, ".<http://file.core.windows.net|file.core.windows.net>", fileShareProfiles.name);

Need to get a '\' after the '.net'.

little-cartoon-10569

03/21/2023, 2:08 AM

Try another "\\", instead of "x.y.net\\".

little-cartoon-10569

03/21/2023, 2:08 AM

Honestly, this is too weird to explain 🙂

enough-caravan-98871

03/21/2023, 2:11 AM

No go. It produces two \\ in output just like it does in the beginning.

enough-caravan-98871

03/21/2023, 2:14 AM

+ fslProfilesUnc: "\\saf0de4e4c\\profiles"

enough-caravan-98871

03/21/2023, 2:15 AM

Goofy for sure! 😀

little-cartoon-10569

03/21/2023, 2:15 AM

Could it be something to do with your editor? Is the file being transformed in some way? "\\" is definitely the correct way to produce a single backslash in JS/TS; could there be something odd in your environment?

little-cartoon-10569

03/21/2023, 2:16 AM

You could try using '\\'?

little-cartoon-10569

03/21/2023, 2:16 AM

There may be a file separator constant that you could use?

enough-caravan-98871

03/21/2023, 2:16 AM

The way I see it, if I want a \\, it should be \\\\ and if I want a single \, it should be \\.

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little-cartoon-10569

03/21/2023, 2:17 AM

How about importing path and using

path.sep

enough-caravan-98871

03/21/2023, 2:18 AM

I am not that fluent. lol

little-cartoon-10569

03/21/2023, 2:18 AM

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import * as path from "path";
console.log(path.sep);

little-cartoon-10569

03/21/2023, 2:19 AM

On Windows, path.sep will be

little-cartoon-10569

03/21/2023, 2:19 AM

It removes portability unfortunately; you won't be able to build UNC paths on non-Windows machines.

little-cartoon-10569

03/21/2023, 2:21 AM

Have you checked that

storageAccount.name

doesn't start with

little-cartoon-10569

03/21/2023, 2:21 AM

If it does, then "\\" is correctly generating

enough-caravan-98871

03/21/2023, 2:21 AM

no it does not start with \

enough-caravan-98871

03/21/2023, 2:23 AM

I am already successfully generating \\ with "\\", no issue. I am just unable to generate a single \. Windows should not matter. I am not trying to use a UNC path yet, in which case it would only work on a Windows OS; understood. I am simply trying to out a text string that represents a UNC path here.

little-cartoon-10569

03/21/2023, 2:24 AM

Yes. We have a weird issue, which is that "\\" is generating

\\

, which it doesn't do for anyone else. I can't help with that, you'll have to figure that one out yourself. My current suggestion is to get

path.sep

and use it when building your string. On Windows machines,

path.sep

, so it should do the job.

little-cartoon-10569

03/21/2023, 2:26 AM

BTW, what is

pulumi.concat()

? I haven't seen that before.

little-cartoon-10569

03/21/2023, 2:27 AM

Ah, I looked it up. It's like interpolate. You could try switching to interpolate, maybe there's a bug in pulumi.concat?

little-cartoon-10569

03/21/2023, 2:28 AM

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export const var = pulumi.interpolate`\\\\${storageAccount.name}.<http://file.core.windows.net|file.core.windows.net>\\${fileShare.name}`

enough-caravan-98871

03/21/2023, 2:30 AM

Going to sleep on it. Thanks!

little-cartoon-10569

03/21/2023, 2:30 AM

I'm a Puluminary. Quite familiar with Pulumi 🙂

little-cartoon-10569

03/21/2023, 2:31 AM

No worries, I'm here to help.

little-cartoon-10569

03/21/2023, 2:33 AM

You'll need to put in a valid variable name. I used the same example as you provided at the top of the thread.

enough-caravan-98871

03/21/2023, 2:36 AM

Those are valid variable names. It is the position of your \\\\ that is throwing it off.

little-cartoon-10569

03/21/2023, 2:37 AM

var

is an identifier in typescript, not a valid variable name.

little-cartoon-10569

03/21/2023, 2:37 AM

Try "x"

enough-caravan-98871

03/21/2023, 2:40 AM

You are correct.

enough-caravan-98871

03/21/2023, 2:48 AM

I am familiar with pulumi.interpolate and use it often. I thought you nailed it for a minute. I have tried several different combinations with it. Same issue with the single \ whether using pulumi.interpolate or pulumi.concat.

enough-caravan-98871

03/21/2023, 3:29 AM

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export const x = pulumi.interpolate`\\\\${storageAccount.name}.<http://file.core.windows.net|file.core.windows.net>\\${fileShareProfiles.name}`

is valid code and produces the following output: '\\\\fqdn\\share'.

little-cartoon-10569

03/21/2023, 3:30 AM

Ah yes, sorry, my bad. In backticks, you don't need to quote backslashes.

enough-caravan-98871

03/21/2023, 3:32 AM

What do you mean?

enough-caravan-98871

03/21/2023, 3:35 AM

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export const x = pulumi.interpolate`\\${storageAccount.name}.<http://file.core.windows.net|file.core.windows.net>\${fileShareProfiles.name}`

turns

$fileShareShareProfiles.name

to a string and produces the following output: '\\fqdn${fileShareProfiles.name}'.

enough-caravan-98871

03/21/2023, 3:36 AM

It is the same issue with the not being able to escape the single \ as when we were using

pulumi.concat

enough-caravan-98871

03/21/2023, 4:02 AM

Seems to relate... https://github.com/pulumi/pulumi/issues/5076

little-cartoon-10569

03/21/2023, 4:19 AM

"\$" quotes the $, which breaks the interpolation. "\\" is supposed to escape the "\" but it's not, for you. Can you confirm that this sort of this is happening for you with strings that are not Outputs? What does this output?

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const simpleString = "foo";
const slashyString = "x\\y";
console.log(`\\ ${simpleString} Continue ${slashyString} \\`);

little-cartoon-10569

03/21/2023, 4:23 AM

That issue you posted seems to be exactly what you're encountering.

little-cartoon-10569

03/21/2023, 4:27 AM

So it looks like you're foiled for now, unless you find a clever workaround, maybe regex-replacing or something.

enough-caravan-98871

03/21/2023, 6:21 AM

The console log works just fine, but need a Pulumi output. /smh

enough-caravan-98871

03/21/2023, 6:21 AM

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str = '\\'

enough-caravan-98871

03/21/2023, 6:22 AM

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console.log(str);

enough-caravan-98871

03/21/2023, 6:22 AM

output = '\'

enough-caravan-98871

03/21/2023, 7:11 AM

Pulumi does not like a single '\' in a string. I tried atChar(index) to try to extract a single character of '\' and then use that as a variable in my complete string. It inserts it as a double '\\'. I tried putting a var of '\' in my stack config and then using that as a variable in my complete string. It still inserts the double '\\'.

little-cartoon-10569

03/21/2023, 8:08 AM

You will have to upvote that GitHub issue, and work around the problem some other way. Maybe create the resource inside an apply in order to bypass Pulumi's intervention?

enough-caravan-98871

03/21/2023, 5:17 PM

@little-cartoon-10569 I am happy to report that with more testing, what you gave me last does essentially work. It is deceiving as when you

pulumi up

to create the output, the output value on the screen is not what is expected. However, if I then run a

pulumi stack output

or observe the output from the web app, it is exactly what I need it to be with the extra backslashes removed.

enough-caravan-98871

03/21/2023, 5:18 PM

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export const fslShare = pulumi.interpolate`\\\\${storageAccount.name}.<http://file.core.windows.net|file.core.windows.net>$\\${fileShareProfiles.name}`;

enough-caravan-98871

03/21/2023, 5:21 PM

That produces

+ fslShare: "\\<http://name.core.windows.net|name.core.windows.net>\\profiles"

on screen after

pulumi up

. However, the stack output is

fslShare  \\<http://name.file.core.windows.net|name.file.core.windows.net>$\profiles

. A misread that had me chasing something for nothing.

little-cartoon-10569

03/21/2023, 7:03 PM

Good stuff! 🎉 Would you like to add a comment to that GitHub issue with your findings? It may help them resolve the issue faster.

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