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Convert text into C-like literal, escaping newlines, tab, double quotes, backslash.
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN">
<html>
<head>
<meta name="keywords" content="C++ escaping, C++ special characters, C++ text escaping">
<meta name="author" content="Tomasz Ostrowski">
<meta name="description" content="Text -> C/C++ string converter (special characters escaping).">
<title>Text -> C/C++ string converter</title>
<style>
body {
font-family: Arial, sans-serif;
background-color: #f4f4f4;
color: #333;
margin: 0;
padding: 0;
}
#main {
max-width: 800px;
margin: 20px auto;
padding: 20px;
background-color: #fff;
box-shadow: 0 0 10px rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.1);
border-radius: 8px;
}
h1 {
color: #4CAF50;
text-align: center;
}
p {
font-size: 16px;
line-height: 1.6;
}
textarea {
width: 100%;
padding: 10px;
border: 1px solid #ccc;
border-radius: 4px;
font-family: monospace;
font-size: 14px;
}
button {
background-color: #4CAF50;
color: white;
padding: 10px 20px;
border: none;
border-radius: 4px;
cursor: pointer;
font-size: 16px;
}
button:hover {
background-color: #45a049;
}
input[type="checkbox"] {
margin-right: 10px;
}
</style>
</head>
<body>
<script type="text/javascript">
function insertAtCursor(myField, myValue) {
//IE support
if (document.selection) {
myField.focus();
sel = document.selection.createRange();
sel.text = myValue;
}
//MOZILLA/NETSCAPE support
else if (myField.selectionStart || myField.selectionStart == '0') {
var startPos = myField.selectionStart;
var endPos = myField.selectionEnd;
restoreTop = myField.scrollTop;
myField.value = myField.value.substring(0, startPos) + myValue + myField.value.substring(endPos, myField.value.length);
myField.selectionStart = startPos + myValue.length;
myField.selectionEnd = startPos + myValue.length;
if (restoreTop > 0) {
myField.scrollTop = restoreTop;
}
}
else {
myField.value += myValue;
}
}
function interceptTabs(evt, control) {
key = evt.keyCode ? evt.keyCode : evt.which ? evt.which : evt.charCode;
if (key == 9) {
insertAtCursor(control, '\t');
return false;
}
else {
return key;
}
}
function cstr_encode(input) {
var output = "\"";
var splitLines = document.frmConvert.chbSplitLines.checked;
var escapePercent = document.frmConvert.chbEscapePercent.checked;
for (i = 0; i < input.length; i++) {
switch (input[i]) {
case '\f':
output += "\\f";
break;
case '\n':
if (splitLines) {
output += "\\n\"\n\"";
} else {
output += "\\n";
}
break;
case '\r':
output += "\\r";
break;
case '\t':
output += "\\t";
break;
case '\"':
output += "\\\"";
break;
case '\\':
output += "\\\\";
break;
case '%':
if (escapePercent) {
output += "%%";
} else {
output += "%";
}
break;
default:
output += input[i];
break;
}
}
output += "\"";
return output;
}
function convert() {
var output = cstr_encode(document.frmConvert.ed_input.value);
document.frmConvert.ed_output.value = output;
}
</script>
<div id="main">
<h1>Text -> C/C++ string converter</h1>
<p>Converting text into C-like literal, escaping newlines, tab, double quotes, backslash.</p>
<form name="frmConvert" action="">
<p>Source text:</p>
<p><textarea onkeydown="return interceptTabs(event, this);" name="ed_input" rows="10" cols="67"></textarea></p>
<p>Options:</p>
<p><input type="checkbox" name="chbSplitLines" value="split" checked="yes">split output into multiple lines</p>
<p><input type="checkbox" name="chbEscapePercent" value="escapePercent">escape % character to %% (for printf formatting string)</p>
<p>
<button type="button" name="btnConvert" onclick="convert()">
Convert
</button>
</p>
<p>C/C++ string</p>
<p>
<textarea name="ed_output" rows="10" cols="67"></textarea>
</p>
</form>
</div>
</body>
</html>
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