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Old 03-06-2006
octal and strings

hi
i have a peculiar problem...i have a number of stirngs separated by a '/0'. it looks somethings like:
Code:
char test[]="abk\0jsdhj\01234\0"

actually i will be reading this from a file or something...
im supposed to change the \0 to a ','
but in C the octal representation starts with a '\'...
therefore the compiler treats \012 as decimal 10...
any suggestions how to force the compiler to treat \012 as characters?
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Old 03-06-2006
Quote:
char test[]="abk\0jsdhj\01234\0"
when interpreting '\0' the string would be terminated thereitself,
hence nullify the effect of '\0' as '\\0' in the string as below
Code:
char test[30]="abk\\0jsdhj\\01234\\0";

then try the following code,

Code:
# include<stdio.h>

int main()
{
  int i;
  int j;
  char replacestr[30];
  char test[30]="abk\\0jsdhj\\01234\\0";

  for( i=0, j=0; test[j] != '\0'; )
  {
     if( test[j] == '\\')
     {
        if( test[++j] == '0' )
        {
           replacestr[i++]='a';
           j++;
        }
        else
        {
           replacestr[i++]=test[j++];
        }
     }
     else
     {
        replacestr[i++]=test[j++];
     }
  }
  replacestr[i]='\0';
  fprintf(stderr, "Replaced String is %s\n", replacestr);
  return 0;
}

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