Updated various copyright information.

[collectd.git] / src / common.c

diff --git a/src/common.c b/src/common.c
index c4994a2..4aa0ebe 100644 (file)
--- a/src/common.c
+++ b/src/common.c
@@ -18,6 +18,8 @@
  * Authors:
  *   Florian octo Forster <octo at verplant.org>
  *   Niki W. Waibel <niki.waibel@gmx.net>
+ *   Sebastian Harl <sh at tokkee.org>
+ *   Michał Mirosław <mirq-linux at rere.qmqm.pl>
 **/
 
 #if HAVE_CONFIG_H
@@ -315,6 +317,40 @@ int strsubstitute (char *str, char c_from, char c_to)
        return (ret);
 } /* int strsubstitute */
 
+int strunescape (char *buf, size_t buf_len)
+{
+       size_t i;
+
+       for (i = 0; (i < buf_len) && (buf[i] != '\0'); ++i)
+       {
+               if (buf[i] != '\\')
+                       continue;
+
+               if ((i >= buf_len) || (buf[i + 1] == '\0')) {
+                       ERROR ("string unescape: backslash found at end of string.");
+                       return (-1);
+               }
+
+               switch (buf[i + 1]) {
+                       case 't':
+                               buf[i] = '\t';
+                               break;
+                       case 'n':
+                               buf[i] = '\n';
+                               break;
+                       case 'r':
+                               buf[i] = '\r';
+                               break;
+                       default:
+                               buf[i] = buf[i + 1];
+                               break;
+               }
+
+               memmove (buf + i + 1, buf + i + 2, buf_len - i - 2);
+       }
+       return (0);
+} /* int strunescape */
+
 int escape_slashes (char *buf, int buf_len)
 {
        int i;