escape sequences

[Nirad Sharma]

gwyn at smoke.brl.mil (Doug Gwyn) writes:

>In article <1991Jan26.080726.21670 at nntp-server.caltech.edu> fjs at nntp-server.caltech.edu (Fernando J. Selman) writes:
>>Is there a way to conver the string (e.g.) "\a" to
>>the constant '\a' at run time, without writing my
>>own lookup table?

>Judging from the "Subject:" line, what you are actually after is a
>way to convert a string such as "\\a" to the character '\a'.  Since
>this amounts to a part of the normal job of compilation, but you
>want instead to defer the action to run time, the answer is that
>there is no simple way to do this.  Use of a lookup table is
>probably the easiest method.

What about sprintf ?

Nirad Sharma
Continuing Education Unit
The University of QUeensland
AUSTRALIA