From 4d2b58180b3005c1c5a87657f9ddec6c4b4408a6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Sebastien Barre <sebastien.barre@kitware.com>
Date: Mon, 13 Jun 2005 18:03:53 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] ENH: add method to escape some chars in a string
---
SystemTools.cxx | 35 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
SystemTools.hxx.in | 6 ++++++
2 files changed, 41 insertions(+)
diff --git a/SystemTools.cxx b/SystemTools.cxx
index 11bbf2d..2de0ba2 100644
--- a/SystemTools.cxx
+++ b/SystemTools.cxx
@@ -1205,6 +1205,41 @@ int SystemTools::EstimateFormatLength(const char *format, va_list ap)
return length;
}
+kwsys_stl::string SystemTools::EscapeChars(
+ const char *str,
+ const char *chars_to_escape,
+ char escape_char)
+{
+ kwsys_stl::string n;
+ if (str)
+ {
+ if (!chars_to_escape | !*chars_to_escape)
+ {
+ n.append(str);
+ }
+ else
+ {
+ n.reserve(strlen(str));
+ while (*str)
+ {
+ const char *ptr = chars_to_escape;
+ while (*ptr)
+ {
+ if (*str == *ptr)
+ {
+ n += escape_char;
+ break;
+ }
+ ++ptr;
+ }
+ n += *str;
+ ++str;
+ }
+ }
+ }
+ return n;
+}
+
// convert windows slashes to unix slashes
void SystemTools::ConvertToUnixSlashes(kwsys_stl::string& path)
{
diff --git a/SystemTools.hxx.in b/SystemTools.hxx.in
index e6af702..d7d9322 100644
--- a/SystemTools.hxx.in
+++ b/SystemTools.hxx.in
@@ -220,6 +220,12 @@ public:
*/
static int EstimateFormatLength(const char *format, va_list ap);
+ /**
+ * Escape specific characters in 'str'.
+ */
+ static kwsys_stl::string EscapeChars(
+ const char *str, const char *chars_to_escape, char escape_char = '\\');
+
/** -----------------------------------------------------------------
* Filename Manipulation Routines
* -----------------------------------------------------------------
--
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