Re: Backslash in strings

[Groleo Marius <groleo@...>]

I tried and it worked, the problem is :
What happens when I have to pass a regex to the c++ funtion?
\W as regexp would become \\W
\\W as regexp would become \\\\W

Which is confusing, and hard to track for a script



On Fri, 18 Mar 2005 13:32:43 +0100, Erik Hougaard <erik@hougaard.com> wrote:
> Use \\ as \
> 
> /Erik
> 
> 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.
> >
> >
> 
> 


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