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Is there any interest in this PR? I'll gladly spend the time to fix the merge conflicts that have accrued since opening it, but only if there's interest in merging it.

Howdy! Sorry for the delays.

I like the idea as proposed. I have a question about the behavior, though. It feels like the escaped characters should be interpreted before storing in the event. For example, for a kv input of this:

foo="hello \"world\""

The resulting value for the foo field should be hello "world" (no backslashes). The way I read your tests, it seems like the backslashes are kept. Thoughts?

Thanks for the feedback. Yes, you're right, the quoting back slashes shouldn't end up in the resulting string. I'll see if I can tweak the regex (it's been a while since I fully understood that regex, though :D )