Re: Backslash in strings

[Brian Weed <bw@...>]

Groleo Marius wrote:

> Hi
>
> I'm passing a string from LUA to a c++ function.
>   The problem is that when I'm trying to pass something like:
>   "\Wabc\new\trial"
>   \W from \Wabc is regarded as an escaped character.
>   the same thing for \n from \new and \t from trial.
>   How can I pass the string to the c++ function, so  the \W wont be
>   treated as an escape
>   character.
>  
FWIW, when I was faced with this problem for file paths, I changed all 
backslashes to the linux path seperator '/', which happens to also work 
for Windows.
It's now a standard in our games that all path names use the linux slash 
(whether they are in a .lua file, or not).

Brian