Function

GLibRegexescape_string

since: 2.14

Declaration [src]

gchar*
g_regex_escape_string (
  const gchar* string,
  gint length
)

Description [src]

Escapes the special characters used for regular expressions in string, for instance “a.b*c” becomes “a.b*c”. This function is useful to dynamically generate regular expressions.

string can contain nul characters that are replaced with “\0”, in this case remember to specify the correct length of string in length.

Available since: 2.14

Parameters

string

Type: const gchar*

The string to escape.

The data is owned by the caller of the function.

The value is a NUL terminated UTF-8 string.

length

Type: gint

The length of string, in bytes, or -1 if string is nul-terminated.

Return value

Type: gchar*

A newly-allocated escaped string.

The caller of the function takes ownership of the data, and is responsible for freeing it.

The value is a NUL terminated UTF-8 string.