escape_nul
Description:
Escapes the nul characters in string
to "\x00".
It can be used to compile a regex with embedded nul characters.
For completeness, length
can be -1 for a nul-terminated string. In this case the output string will be of course equal to
string
.
Parameters:
length |
the length of |
string |
the string to escape |
Returns:
a newly-allocated escaped string |