diff options
Diffstat (limited to 'lib/pure/strutils.nim')
| -rw-r--r-- | lib/pure/strutils.nim | 26 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 20 deletions
diff --git a/lib/pure/strutils.nim b/lib/pure/strutils.nim index 62ceaa2e8..dbb4db781 100644 --- a/lib/pure/strutils.nim +++ b/lib/pure/strutils.nim @@ -1761,29 +1761,15 @@ proc insertSep*(s: string, sep = '_', digits = 3): string {.noSideEffect, proc escape*(s: string, prefix = "\"", suffix = "\""): string {.noSideEffect, rtl, extern: "nsuEscape".} = - ## Escapes a string `s`. - ## - ## This does these operations (at the same time): - ## * replaces any ``\`` by ``\\`` - ## * replaces any ``'`` by ``\'`` - ## * replaces any ``"`` by ``\"`` - ## * replaces any other character in the set ``{'\0'..'\31', '\127'..'\255'}`` - ## by ``\xHH`` where ``HH`` is its hexadecimal value. - ## The procedure has been designed so that its output is usable for many - ## different common syntaxes. The resulting string is prefixed with - ## `prefix` and suffixed with `suffix`. Both may be empty strings. - ## **Note**: This is not correct for producing Ansi C code! + ## Escapes a string `s`. See `system.addEscapedChar <system.html#addEscapedChar>`_ + ## for the escaping scheme. + ## + ## The resulting string is prefixed with `prefix` and suffixed with `suffix`. + ## Both may be empty strings. result = newStringOfCap(s.len + s.len shr 2) result.add(prefix) for c in items(s): - case c - of '\0'..'\31', '\127'..'\255': - add(result, "\\x") - add(result, toHex(ord(c), 2)) - of '\\': add(result, "\\\\") - of '\'': add(result, "\\'") - of '\"': add(result, "\\\"") - else: add(result, c) + result.addEscapedChar(c) add(result, suffix) proc unescape*(s: string, prefix = "\"", suffix = "\""): string {.noSideEffect, |