Escape Character in directory path

[Rich Strang]

Hi

I need to pass a path to FindFirstFile() that is specified by the user,
problem is that all \ characters need to be prefixed with another \, what is
the easiest way to do this short of scanning the entire string and replacing
a \ with \\?

Kind Regards

Rich Strang

 

[Clark Cox]

Hi

I need to pass a path to FindFirstFile()

First, I'll ignore this function, as it isn't standard C.

that is specified by the user,
problem is that all \ characters need to be prefixed with another \, what is
the easiest way to do this short of scanning the entire string and replacing
a \ with \\?

If you've already got a string that contains backslash characters
(i.e. entered by the user, read from a file, etc.), there is no need to
escape them. The escaping of backslashes is only needed in string and
character literals (i.e. in the source code).