bugfix: support escaped double quotes in strings

1 files changed, 9 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/lexer.py b/lexer.py
index eaeccec..0a634c5 100644
--- a/lexer.py
+++ b/lexer.py
@@ -126,7 +126,15 @@ def get_string(data, line):
     while data[counter] != '"':
         if data[counter] == "\n":
             offset += 1
-        string += data[counter]
+
+        # look ahead to see if it's a double quote
+        if data[counter] == "\\" and \
+                    len(data) > counter and \
+                    data[counter+1] == '"':
+            string += '"'
+            counter += 1
+        else:
+            string += data[counter]
         counter += 1
         if counter >= len(data):
             raise Exception("couldn't parse string")