Question: can delimiters be quoted?

[thorstenhuhn]

I recently needed to add an AWS SSM Document to one of my CloudFormation Stacks managed by Qaz. Due to the use of the Jinja-style for variable syntax "{{ variable }}" in SSM documents as well I now get Gen-Time errors "function variable not defined". I know I could change the qaz delimiters by setting a different gen_time value in config.yml but this would lead to different settings in different projects which might confuse my collegues also working on my templates.

My first idea to workaround this was to implement a function rendering a "string" to "{{ string }}" at Gen-time but I would prefer using quotes if possible.

Does anyone know a better way to address this issue?

[daidokoro]

Hey @thorstenhuhn

You can definitely quote delimiters by using what I call double wrapping.. For example,
say I want {{ variable }} to be represented literally in my config file. I would do the following.

{{ "{{ variable }}" }}

This would literally evaluate to {{ variable }} when executed.

If I wanted to keep the quotes I could do:

{{ `"{{ variable }}"` }}

Which would evaluate to: "{{ variable }}"

[thorstenhuhn]

That's awesome, thanks a lot!