Re: Backslash in strings

[Groleo Marius <groleo@...>]

Well, i gave the path example, but i use it in a regexp.
And in a regexp, it happens to be \, which i had to escape, if i was using "".



On Fri, 18 Mar 2005 09:41:44 -0500, Brian Weed <bw@imaginengine.com> wrote:
> 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
> 


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