Re: Escaping strings into GConf keys

[Alexander Larsson <alexl redhat com>]

On Fri, 11 Apr 2003, Dave Malcolm wrote:

> (Hopefully I picked an appropriate list for this)
> 
> Is there a handy function somewhere to take arbitrary strings and convert 
> them into valid GConf keys?
> 
> In particular, I wish to have keys named after XML Formal Public Identifiers, 
> which can contain slashes, spaces and other punctuation - hence I'd need an 
> encode/decode stage to mangle/escape the invalid characters.
> 
> If such a feature doesn't exist yet, would you like one? (probably 
> implemented as a pair of functions, so that you can losslessly convert in 
> both directions)

/* Escape/unescape a string to create a valid key */
char*    gconf_escape_key         (const char *arbitrary_text,
                                   int         len);
char*    gconf_unescape_key       (const char *escaped_key,
                                   int         len);


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