Issue
Hi all, I have an issue with escaping commas in string filters. I have this line in my dashboard LookML:
default_value: "San Francisco, East Bay, Portland, Washington, D.C.",
and Looker treats “Washington” and “D.C.” as 2 separate strings, which is not desired.
Notes
First thing I tried is to escape the comma with a backslash, like below:
default_value: "San Francisco, East Bay, Portland, Washington\, D.C."
but this gives me a “parsing error” in Looker. Then I used double backslashes:
default_value: "San Francisco, East Bay, Portland, Washington\\, D.C."
Now there wasn’t any parsing errors, but this eliminated the space after that comma, which is not desired.
According to http://www.looker.com/docs/reference/filter-expressions, I modified my line to
default_value: "San Francisco", "East Bay", "Portland", "Washington, D.C.",
However this also gives me a “parsing error”. Then I tried using single quote to enclose the whole thing, like below:
default_value: '"San Francisco", "East Bay", "Portland", "Washington, D.C."',
This successfully gets rid of the parsing error, but now the filter strings were not rendered well, and I lost the ability to click on the 4 strings like I can do with a button —I have to edit the text itself in the filter inputbox.
Then I tried using ^ to escape the comma:
default_value: "San Francisco, East Bay, Portland, Washington^, D.C."
This also works, but again, I couldn’t click on the strings like buttons.
##Question ##
What’s the best practices here and how did you do it? Thanks!
