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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers Escaping backslash Post 302243984 by swmk on Tuesday 7th of October 2008 01:43:51 AM
Old 10-07-2008
Quote:
Originally Posted by juheimbu
You could try using sed to parse the value once you've read it:

var=c:\mask\mask
newvar=`echo $var|sed -e 's/\\/\\\\/g'`

Then use newvar for the rest of your operations. I'm sure there's a slicker solution, it just escapes me at the moment.
Return this;
sed: command garbled: s/\/\\/g
 

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LEARN ABOUT OPENSOLARIS

tcl_backslash

Tcl_Backslash(3TCL)					      Tcl Library Procedures					       Tcl_Backslash(3TCL)

__________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

NAME

       Tcl_Backslash - parse a backslash sequence

SYNOPSIS

       #include <tcl.h>

       char
       Tcl_Backslash(src, countPtr)

ARGUMENTS

       char   *src	  (in)	    Pointer to a string starting with a backslash.

       int    *countPtr   (out)     If	countPtr isn't NULL, *countPtr gets filled in with number of characters in the backslash sequence, includ-
				    ing the backslash character.
_________________________________________________________________

DESCRIPTION

       The use of Tcl_Backslash is deprecated in favor of Tcl_UtfBackslash.									   |

       This is a utility procedure provided for backwards compatibility with non-internationalized Tcl extensions.  It parses a backslash sequence |
       and returns the low byte of the Unicode character corresponding to the sequence.  Tcl_Backslash modifies *countPtr to contain the number of
       characters in the backslash sequence.

       See the Tcl manual entry for information on the valid backslash sequences.  All of the sequences described in the Tcl manual entry are sup-
       ported by Tcl_Backslash.

SEE ALSO
																	   |
       Tcl(1T), Tcl_UtfBackslash(3TCL)

KEYWORDS

       backslash, parse

ATTRIBUTES

       See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:

       +--------------------+-----------------+
       |  ATTRIBUTE TYPE    | ATTRIBUTE VALUE |
       +--------------------+-----------------+
       |Availability	    | SUNWTcl	      |
       +--------------------+-----------------+
       |Interface Stability | Uncommitted     |
       +--------------------+-----------------+
NOTES

       Source for Tcl is available on http://opensolaris.org.

Tcl									8.1						       Tcl_Backslash(3TCL)
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