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 |