Function

Shellutil_regex_escape

Declaration [src] 

char*
shell_util_regex_escape (
  const char* str
)

Description [src]

A wrapper around g_regex_escape_string() that takes its argument as \0-terminated string rather than a byte-array that confuses gjs.

Parameters

str

Type: const char*

A UTF-8 string to escape.

The data is owned by the caller of the function.
The value is a NUL terminated UTF-8 string.

Return value

Type: char*

str with all regex-special characters escaped.

The caller of the function takes ownership of the data, and is responsible for freeing it.
The value is a NUL terminated UTF-8 string.