Re: Escaping strings into GConf keys

Dave Malcolm <[email protected]> Mon, 14 Apr 2003 18:36:56 +0100
Newsgroups gmane.comp.gnome.lib.devel
Message-ID <03041418365600.06499@linux>
On Monday 14 April 2003 10:54, Alexander Larsson wrote:
> On Fri, 11 Apr 2003, Dave Malcolm wrote:
> > (Hopefully I picked an appropriate list for this)
> >
> > Is there a handy function somewhere to take arbitrary strings and convert
> > them into valid GConf keys?
> >

[snip]

>
> /* Escape/unescape a string to create a valid key */
> char*    gconf_escape_key         (const char *arbitrary_text,
>                                    int         len);
> char*    gconf_unescape_key       (const char *escaped_key,
>                                    int         len);

Oops... I feel very silly.  The GConf documentation was so good that I hadn't 
thought to look at the header files...  That's my excuse anyway :-)

Dave Malcolm