Question

Consider the following char* example:

char* s = "\n";

How can this be converted into a single char that represents the new line character like so:

char c = '\n';

In addition to processing newlines I also need to be able to convert any character with an escape character preceeding it into a char. How is this possible?

Answer 1

char c = *s; works.

The '\n' inside the string is only two characters in source form: after compiling it is a single character; the same for all other escape character.

The string "fo\111\tar", after compiling, has 7 characters (the 6 visible in the source code ('f', 'o', '\111', '\t', 'a', and 'r') and a null terminator).