Documentation does not discuss how to format multi-line strings in line protocol.

[sjlongland]

I'm trying to insert multi-line string data via the line protocol. The documentation doesn't cover how to do it. I took a guess and came up with this.

Str,fqname=graphql_WC3057.equip2.strPoint1,id=d6fb7b9a-a952-47cb-ae00-b4a3a209e97e value="multi\nline\nstring" 1451772480000000000

(Note, original version of this bug had an error, my text editor had "helpfully" broken the exceptionally long line for me and I didn't see the unintentional line break.)

It'd be worth documenting escape sequences like \n (and others like \t, etc if supported) in case people need them.

URL for relevant page?

https://docs.influxdata.com/influxdb/v1.8/write_protocols/line_protocol_reference/

What products and version are you using?

InfluxDB v1.5.3 (git: 1.5 89e084a80fb1e0bf5e7d38038e3367f821fdf3d7)

Where did you look before opening the issue?

• Documentation
• Issues for this project
• Issues for influxdb project itself

[sanderson]

@sjlongland The following note is at the top of the doc you referenced:

Note Line protocol does not support the newline character \n in tag values or field values.