Re: a quickie

[Angus Leeming]

On Tuesday 26 March 2002 1:20 pm, Herbert Voss wrote:
> Angus Leeming wrote:
> > Too late. Not interested anymore ;-) Someone else can do it if they're
> > feeling creative.
>
> here is one with the replace (means subst) from my mail
>
>
> Herbert

Oh, come on, Herbert. What about all the other latex special chars? Can you 
complete this for me (the '~', '^', '\\' entries)?

string const latexify(string const str)
{
        ostringstream out;

        string::const_iterator it  = str.begin();
        string::const_iterator end = str.end();

        for (; it != end; ++it) {
                switch (*it) {
                        
                case ('$'):
                case ('&'):
                case ('%'):
                case ('#'):
                case ('_'):
                case ('{'):
                case ('}'):
                        out << '\\' << *it;
                        break;

                case ('~'):
                case ('^'):
                case ('\\'):
                        break;

                default:
                        out << *it;
                        break;
                }
        }
        
        return out.str().c_str();
}