Bug report: Dataview Picking Up Backslash \ in Inline Field

What happened?

While using inline fields from dataview in a table with an alias, it seems the escape character \ is being picked up and dataview seemed to be unable to find a note because of the backslash applied to it:

| Table | Test |
|---|---|
| Field | (Field:: [[DV File 1\|Inline Syntax Formatting]])

Field:: [[DV File 2\|Inline Syntax]]

Field:: [[DV File 2|Not Escaped File]]

The file on the right is linked to the file on the left, but doesn’t appear in the dataview list because of the escaped link.

Figured out it was a dataview issue with the dataview query below. Using this.file.link doesn’t find the note since it’s not DV File 1, the inline field reads the link as DV File 1\ which doesn’t exist.

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Issue discovered initially when using breadcrumbs: https://github.com/SkepticMystic/breadcrumbs/issues/386

DQL

TABLE WITHOUT ID Field
FROM ""
WHERE contains(Field, this.file.link)

JS

No response

Dataview Version

0.5.9

Obsidian Version

0.14.7

OS

Windows

[blacksmithgu]

Bad link parser implementation; thanks for flagging.

[SlRvb]

So I’m on dataview 0.5.26 which has made some stuff go a little more haywire 😵‍💫 (visible in the genre column of the query)

My query is just this, basically look for songs where the album field links back to the current note:

```dataview
TABLE WITHOUT ID 
	link(file.link, Alias) AS Song, 
	N AS "\#", 
	Genre,
	Year
FROM "30 Projects/Music/Songs"
WHERE contains(Album, this.file.link)
SORT N asc
```

Which works for the file Meridian Ambit since the album link doesn’t have an escaped alias, but the others don’t show up as they’re escaped and are thus read as SL-M-A - Worlds|Worlds which is a file that doesn’t exist so there’s no file.link or file.path for the query to grab even though the file SL-M-A - Worlds exists and is linked. The escaped link isn’t parsed to read the part before \| to search for that it seems so it breaks my query.

Removing the escape [[SL-M-A - Worlds|Worlds]] does work, but since there’s a pipe, it breaks the link visually in the table 🥴