I this case the '\'s that appear in #include statements are the ONLY
ones that need to be changed, so I can look for #include.
--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > > If backslashes will only appear in file paths,
> you
> > > are set. If they
> > > appear in some other contents where they need to
> be
> > > kept, then look at a
> > > more sophisticated tool like sed.
> > >
> > This it true... the '\' also appears in printf's
> > IE: fprintf("\t hello \n");
>
> Ok... You're going to have to do some surgery with
> sed scripts, and if
> that fails, do it by hand...
>
> sed basically is a batch editor. You give on the
> command line a
> sequence of editing commands (or tell it to read
> them from a file), and
> it applies them automatically to each line on its
> standard input.
>
> What you need to do is determine if the two kinds of
> backslashes, the
> ones needing to be changed and the ones that don't,
> appear in disjoint
> contexts. For example, do you only have backlash
> escape sequences
> inside printf statements, or do they occur in string
> literals elsewhere
> in your code? Do any literal pathnames appear
> inside printf statements?
>
> If this above is true, you could write a script that
> changed the
> backslashes into slashes only outside printf
> statements, or something
> similar. However, the viability of this kind of
> approach depends on
> your code.
>
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