Function
GLibstrescape
Declaration [src]
gchar*
g_strescape (
const gchar* source,
const gchar* exceptions
)
Description [src]
It replaces the following special characters in the string source
with their corresponding C escape sequence:
| Symbol | Escape |
|---|---|
| U+0008 Backspace | \b |
| U+000C Form Feed | \f |
| U+000A Line Feed | \n |
| U+000D Carriage Return | \r |
| U+0009 Horizontal Tabulation | \t |
| U+000B Vertical Tabulation | \v |
It also inserts a backslash (\) before any backslash or a double quote (").
Additionally all characters in the range 0x01-0x1F (everything
below SPACE) and in the range 0x7F-0xFF (all non-ASCII chars) are
replaced with a backslash followed by their octal representation.
Characters supplied in exceptions are not escaped.
g_strcompress() does the reverse conversion.
Parameters
source-
Type:
const gchar*A string to escape.
The data is owned by the caller of the function. The value is a NUL terminated UTF-8 string. exceptions-
Type:
const gchar*A string of characters not to escape in
source.The argument can be NULL.The data is owned by the caller of the function. The value is a NUL terminated UTF-8 string.