• *ADDSLASHES Function
• *concat_keys Function
• *grouping_format_get Function
• *if_error Function
• a5_addtrailingbackslash Function
• a5_changeorderoflist Function
• a5_code_format Function
• a5_pad_leading_tabs Function
• a5_popuptexteditor Function
• a5_remove_curly_brackets Function
• a5_remove_quotes Function
• a5_removetrailingbackslash Function
• a5_unsquare Function
• ALIGN_LEFT Function
• ALLTRIM Function
• CASE Function
• DELIVERY_CODE Function
• IIF Function
• jsescapequotes Function
• LTRIM Function
• PADC Function
• PADL Function
• PADR Function
• profiler_format Function
• QUOTE Function
• RAND_STRING Function
• regex_literal_insert Function
• REPLICATE Function
• RIGHT Function
• RTRIM Function
• savestringtofile Function
• SPACE Function
• TRANSFORM Function
• TRIM Function
• UN_PAREN Function
• UNMASK Function
• unquote Function
• UNQUOTE2 Function
• WORD_WRAP Function

*ADDSLASHES Function

Syntax

Arguments

New_String

A string with escaped quote characters.

bytes

A string containing characters to be translated.

escape

A string containing the characters to be translated.

replace

A string containing the replacement characters. This string must be in the same order as the Escapestring.

Description

Quotes a BLOB (escapes NIL characters) -- allows user to chose what to escape and what to replace with.

Discussion

Adds backslash characters before quote characters, so they can be used in expression strings. The *ADDSLASHES() function has custom quotation rules that allow you to generated quoted strings for other languages, such as JavaScript and HTML. It allows binary (blob) data to be quoted (with the NULL terminator replaced with a "\0". By default it converts chr(13)to "\r", chr(10)to "\n" and chr(26)to "\Z".

Example

dim cc as C
 
cc = "filter = " + chr(34) + "Edward" + chr(34)
 
? cc
= filter = "Edward"
 
? *addslashes(cc)
= filter = \"Edward\"
 
? *addslashes("crlf = "+crlf() +" control-z = "+chr(26)) 
= "crlf = \r\n control-z = \Z"

Optionally define what characters (other than NULL) get mapped. Here is an example that maps chr(9)to "\t" and chr(8)to "\b".

? *addslashes("crlf = " + crlf() + " control-z = " + chr(26) + " tab = " + chr(9) + " chr(8) = " + chr(8), crlf() + chr(26) + chr(9) + chr(8), "rnZtb") 
= "crlf = \r\n control-z = \Z tab = \t chr(8) = \b"

See Also

• Character Formatting Functions