On Thu, Oct 18, 2012 at 09:48:32PM +0100, David Laight wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 18, 2012 at 07:06:55PM +0100, Patrick Welche wrote:
> > On Thu, Oct 18, 2012 at 12:57:52PM -0500, David Champion wrote:
> > > Does anyone else think this is problematic? I could redo it in C if
> > > it's a widespread concern.
> >
> > As you're offering, I think that would be preferable :-)
>
> Actually even C programs are a PITA if you are trying to crossbuild.
> At the very least, they require special attention.
>
> Why not pipe through tr -cd in order to remove anything not alphanumeric
> or sane punctuation.
> Although I suspect that the only problem character is ".
I think piping through:
sed -e 's/\\/\\\\/;s/"/\\"/g;s/^/"/;s/$/\\n"/'
will put each line inside "" and escape and '\' and '"'.
That should be enough to #include into an array initialser.
David
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