absl::CEscape

Escapes a src string using C-style escapes sequences (https://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/language/escape), escaping other non-printable/non-whitespace bytes as octal sequences (e.g. "377").

Synopsis

Declared in <absl/strings/escaping.h>

std::string
CEscape(std::string_view src);

Description

Example:

std::string s = "foorbartbaz010011012013014x0dn"; std::string escaped_s = absl::CEscape(s); EXPECT_EQ(escaped_s, "foo\rbar\tbaz\010\t\n\013\014\r\n");

Return Value

The escaped string.

Parameters

NameDescription
srcThe string to escape.