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NAMEquotestrdup, quoterunestrdup, unquotestrdup, unquoterunestrdup, quotestrfmt, quoterunestrfmt, quotefmtinstall, doquote, needsrcquote - quoted character stringsSYNOPSIS#include <u.h>#include <libc.h> char *quotestrdup(char *s) Rune *quoterunestrdup(Rune *s) char *unquotestrdup(char *s) Rune *unquoterunestrdup(Rune *s) int quotestrfmt(Fmt*) int quoterunestrfmt(Fmt*) void quotefmtinstall(void) int (*doquote)(int c) int needsrcquote(int c) DESCRIPTIONThese routines manipulate character strings, either adding or removing quotes as necessary. In the quoted form, the strings are in the style of rc(1), with single quotes surrounding the string. Embedded single quotes are indicated by a doubled single quote. For instance,
when quoted becomes
The empty string is represented by two quotes, ''. The first four functions act as variants of strdup (see Each returns a freshly allocated copy of the string, created using Quotestrdup returns a quoted copy of s, while unquotestrdup returns a copy of s with the quotes evaluated. The rune versions of these functions do the same for strings (see The string returned by quotestrdup or quoterunestrdup has the following properties:
The function pointer doquote is nil by default. If it is non-nil, characters are passed to that function to see if they should be quoted. This mechanism allows programs to specify that characters other than blanks, control characters, or quotes be quoted. Regardless of the return value of *doquote, blanks, control characters, and quotes are always quoted. Needsrcquote is provided as a doquote function that flags any character special to Quotestrfmt and quoterunestrfmt are formatting routines that produce quoted strings as output. They may be installed by hand, but quotefmtinstall installs them under the standard format characters q and Q. (They are not installed automatically.) If the format string includes the alternate format character #, for example %#q, the printed string will always be quoted; otherwise quotes will only be provided if necessary to avoid ambiguity. In <libc.h> there are #pragma statements so the compiler can type-check uses of %q and %Q in format strings. SOURCE/src/lib9/quote.c/src/lib9/fmt/fmtquote.c SEE ALSOBUGSBecause it is provided by the format library, doquote is a preprocessor macro defined as fmtdoquote; see Visit the GSP FreeBSD Man Page Interface. |