Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: How can I de-escape my strings at run time?
Message-ID: <1990May31.172228.2071@utzoo.uucp>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <6550.26639B0A@puddle.fidonet.org>
Date: Thu, 31 May 90 17:22:28 GMT

In article <6550.26639B0A@puddle.fidonet.org> cspw.quagga@p0.f4.n494.z5.fidonet.org (cspw quagga) writes:
>Is there an easy way to read a string into a buffer with automatic run-time
>translation of the escape sequences? ...

Alas, no.  It would be very nice if *scanf and *printf provided variants of
%s that would do this.  At one point I considered formally proposing this
for ANSI C, but decided that I could not point to sufficient experience
with it to justify adding it to the standard.
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