From: Toni Gundogdu <legatvs@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 11 Jun 2013 06:46:07 +0000 (+0300)
Subject: quvi/util: Add escape_magic function
X-Git-Tag: v0.9.20130619~3
X-Git-Url: https://repo.or.cz/w/libquvi-scripts.git/commitdiff_plain/751bf6dbd8c05c2ede518234fcccff889c3dfe1f

quvi/util: Add escape_magic function

Signed-off-by: Toni Gundogdu <legatvs@gmail.com>
---

diff --git a/share/common/quvi/util.lua b/share/common/quvi/util.lua
index 5641c43..b7d416f 100644
--- a/share/common/quvi/util.lua
+++ b/share/common/quvi/util.lua
@@ -146,6 +146,17 @@ function M.tokenize(s,sep) -- Based on http://lua-users.org/wiki/SplitJoin
   return fields
 end
 
+--[[
+Escape Lua magic characters.
+Parameters:
+  s .. String to escape
+Returns
+  The escaped string.
+]]--
+function M.escape_magic(s)
+  return (s:gsub('([()%%.%+%-*?[%]^$])', '%%%1'))
+end
+
 -- Uncomment to test
 --[[
 package.path = package.path .. ';../?.lua'