[asterisk-bugs] [Asterisk 0014942]: New function to escape any character in a string

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http://bugs.digium.com/view.php?id=14942 
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Reported By:                ajohnson
Assigned To:                
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Project:                    Asterisk
Issue ID:                   14942
Category:                   Functions/func_strings
Reproducibility:            have not tried
Severity:                   feature
Priority:                   normal
Status:                     new
Asterisk Version:           1.6.0.6 
Regression:                 No 
SVN Branch (only for SVN checkouts, not tarball releases): N/A 
SVN Revision (number only!):  
Request Review:              
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Date Submitted:             2009-04-20 15:46 CDT
Last Modified:              2009-04-20 17:24 CDT
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Summary:                    New function to escape any character in a string
Description: 
I was having issues with ODBC functions in Asterisk.  Asterisk was
interperating a comma as a delimiter, even if it was contained in a
variable that I was passing as a value to the function.  This may be
correct, but I needed a function to escape commas inside of variables I was
passing to an ODBC function.

The new function's name is ESCAPE(<escape-chars>|<string>).  It will
escape every instance of the characters specified inside of the given
string.

I am not a C programmer and I apologize for not uploading this as a diff
against trunk.
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 (0103508) ajohnson (reporter) - 2009-04-20 17:24
 http://bugs.digium.com/view.php?id=14942#c103508 
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I verified that ODBC functions work differently in 1.6 than 1.4.  Escaping
commas is no longer necessary in 1.6 if you wrap it in quotes.

This function might still be usefull, but is not needed in 1.6 for the
specific thing I was trying to accomplish. 

Issue History 
Date Modified    Username       Field                    Change               
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2009-04-20 17:24 ajohnson       Note Added: 0103508                          
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