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commit ab9cadc4a4ea4875fec8a2d4651440780a7922d5
parent 6c24a52c96905f126c45a30805eb2a277cdc91b6
Author: Ricardo Mones <ricardo@mones.org>
Date:   Tue,  5 Nov 2013 00:55:10 +0100

New utils function escape_internal_quotes

Searchs for all quotation characters within a string, creating
(only if required) a copy with the quotation characters escaped.

Diffstat:
M
src/common/utils.c
 | 
41
+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
M
src/common/utils.h
 | 
2
++

2 files changed, 43 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
diff --git a/src/common/utils.c b/src/common/utils.c
@@ -810,6 +810,47 @@ void extract_quote(gchar *str, gchar quote_chr)
 	}
 }
 
+/* Returns a newly allocated string with all quote_chr not at the beginning
+   or the end of str escaped with '\' or the given str if not required. */
+gchar *escape_internal_quotes(gchar *str, gchar quote_chr)
+{
+	register gchar *p, *q;
+	gchar *qstr;
+	int k = 0, l = 0;
+
+	if (str == NULL || *str == '\0')
+		return str;
+
+	/* search for unescaped quote_chr */
+	p = str;
+	if (*p == quote_chr)
+		++p, ++l;
+	while (*p) {
+		if (*p == quote_chr && *(p - 1) != '\\' && *(p + 1) != '\0')
+			++k;
+		++p, ++l;
+	}
+	if (!k) /* nothing to escape */
+		return str;
+
+	/* unescaped quote_chr found */
+	qstr = g_malloc(l + k + 1);
+	p = str;
+	q = qstr;
+	if (*p == quote_chr) {
+		*q = quote_chr;
+		++p, ++q;
+	}
+	while (*p) {
+		if (*p == quote_chr && *(p - 1) != '\\' && *(p + 1) != '\0')
+			*q++ = '\\';
+		*q++ = *p++;
+	}
+	*q = '\0';
+
+	return qstr;
+}
+
 void eliminate_address_comment(gchar *str)
 {
 	register gchar *srcp, *destp;
diff --git a/src/common/utils.h b/src/common/utils.h
@@ -338,6 +338,8 @@ void extract_parenthesis		(gchar		*str,
 
 void extract_quote			(gchar		*str,
 					 gchar		 quote_chr);
+gchar *escape_internal_quotes		(gchar		*str,
+					 gchar		 quote_chr);
 void eliminate_address_comment		(gchar		*str);
 gchar *strchr_with_skip_quote		(const gchar	*str,
 					 gint		 quote_chr,