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vmonteco
vmonteco

Reputation: 15393

Escaping a char * in C

I had to made something for a little programm some days ago, I needed to turn a string like "foo\n" into its stringified form (something like "\"foo\\n\"").

But I found nothing, so I ended up writing my own function (and it worked fine). But I'm still wondering : Is there a function to stringify strings like this?

I know the python equivalent "%r" % strtostringify, and I know that I can strinfifying pieces of code at compiling with preprocessor directives :

#define TOSTRING(X) #X
#define STRINGIFY(X) TOSTRING(X)

but is there a way to make it dynamically in C?

Upvotes: 2

Views: 85

Answers (1)

gsamaras
gsamaras

Reputation: 73366

Escaping special characters is not provided in any standard function.

For GPL, you can take a look in standard c library for escaping a string.

Upvotes: 4

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