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From: exnirad@brolga.cc.uq.oz.au (Nirad Sharma)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: escape sequences
Message-ID: <1991Jan27.053717.4772@brolga.cc.uq.oz.au>
Date: 27 Jan 91 05:37:17 GMT
References: <1991Jan26.080726.21670@nntp-server.caltech.edu> <14992@smoke.brl.mil>
Organization: Prentice Computer Centre, The University of Queensland, Australia.
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gwyn@smoke.brl.mil (Doug Gwyn) writes:

>In article <1991Jan26.080726.21670@nntp-server.caltech.edu> fjs@nntp-server.caltech.edu (Fernando J. Selman) writes:
>>Is there a way to conver the string (e.g.) "\a" to
>>the constant '\a' at run time, without writing my
>>own lookup table?

>Judging from the "Subject:" line, what you are actually after is a
>way to convert a string such as "\\a" to the character '\a'.  Since
>this amounts to a part of the normal job of compilation, but you
>want instead to defer the action to run time, the answer is that
>there is no simple way to do this.  Use of a lookup table is
>probably the easiest method.

What about sprintf ?

Nirad Sharma
Continuing Education Unit
The University of QUeensland
AUSTRALIA