Merge remote-tracking branch 'github/pr/734'

[collectd.git] / src / utils_parse_option.c

diff --git a/src/utils_parse_option.c b/src/utils_parse_option.c
index 56e65ea..7f06f29 100644 (file)
--- a/src/utils_parse_option.c
+++ b/src/utils_parse_option.c
@@ -155,55 +155,4 @@ int parse_option (char **ret_buffer, char **ret_key, char **ret_value)
   return (0);
 } /* int parse_option */
 
-int escape_string (char *buffer, size_t buffer_size)
-{
-  char *temp;
-  size_t i;
-  size_t j;
-
-  /* Check if we need to escape at all first */
-  temp = strpbrk (buffer, " \t\"\\");
-  if (temp == NULL)
-    return (0);
-
-  temp = (char *) malloc (buffer_size);
-  if (temp == NULL)
-    return (-1);
-  memset (temp, 0, buffer_size);
-
-  temp[0] = '"';
-  j = 1;
-
-  for (i = 0; i < buffer_size; i++)
-  {
-    if (buffer[i] == 0)
-    {
-      break;
-    }
-    else if ((buffer[i] == '"') || (buffer[i] == '\\'))
-    {
-      if (j > (buffer_size - 4))
-        break;
-      temp[j] = '\\';
-      temp[j + 1] = buffer[i];
-      j += 2;
-    }
-    else
-    {
-      if (j > (buffer_size - 3))
-        break;
-      temp[j] = buffer[i];
-      j++;
-    }
-  }
-
-  assert ((j + 1) < buffer_size);
-  temp[j] = '"';
-  temp[j + 1] = 0;
-
-  sstrncpy (buffer, temp, buffer_size);
-  sfree (temp);
-  return (0);
-} /* int escape_string */
-
 /* vim: set sw=2 ts=8 tw=78 et : */