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.
func@GLib.strcompress does the reverse conversion.
Return
a newly-allocated copy of @source with special characters escaped
Parameters
source
a string to escape
exceptions
a string of characters not to escape in @source