Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!uunet!cs.utexas.edu!sun-barr!newstop!texsun!texbell!ficc!peter From: peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva) Newsgroups: comp.lang.c Subject: Re: How can I de-escape my strings at run time? Message-ID: Date: 6 Jun 90 13:20:04 GMT References: <6550.26639B0A@puddle.fidonet.org> <2596@litchi.bbn.com> <896@wraith.cs.uow.edu.au> <:9W3JZ3@ggpc2.ferranti.com> <+2X3GW9@xds13.ferranti.com> Reply-To: peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva) Organization: Xenix Support, FICC Lines: 17 In article meissner@osf.org (Michael Meissner) writes: > The C standard mandates that \r and \n have separate numeric values. That'll be fun for Microware and people using OS/9. > | Not to mention that C pretty much assumes you'll have non-portable > | characters like # and {} available... > That's why there are trigraphs. Does anyone actually use them for work? It seems to me they're pretty much unusable in practice except for transferring code between environments. > (or your DG terminal in DG mode....). Also, not everything is a > terminal, escape whatever also does things to printers, and such. And there is a standard for that. -- `-_-' Peter da Silva. +1 713 274 5180. 'U` Have you hugged your wolf today? @FIN Dirty words: Zhghnyyl erphefvir vayvar shapgvbaf.