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Is there a standard C library function to escape C-strings?
For example, if I had the C string:
char example[] = "first line\nsecond line: \"inner quotes\"";
And I wanted to print
"first line\nsecond line: \"inner quotes\""
Is there a library function that will do that transformation for me? Rolling my own just seems a little silly.
Bonus points if I can give it a length to escape (so it stops before or beyond the \0).
If you were writing GPL stuff you might use http://git.savannah.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=gnulib.git;a=blob;f=lib/quotearg.c;hb=HEAD