Function

GLib-2.0 ▶ GLib ▶ strescape

  • 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.

    GLib.strcompress does the reverse conversion.

    Parameters

    • source: string

      a string to escape

    • Optionalexceptions: string

      a string of characters not to escape in source

    Returns string

    a newly-allocated copy of source with special characters escaped