escape_copy_string()

char * escape_copy_string

(

char *

str

)

Escape input string suitable for COPY.

If no characters require escaping, simply return the input pointer. Otherwise return a new allocated string.

Definition at line 119 of file shp2pgsql-core.c.

{
        /*
         * Escape the following characters by adding a preceding backslash
         *      tab, backslash, cr, lf
         *
         * 1. find # of escaped characters
         * 2. make new string
         *
         */
 
        char *result;
        char *ptr, *optr;
        int toescape = 0;
        size_t size;
 
        ptr = str;
 
        /* Count how many characters we need to escape so we know the size of the string we need to return */
        while (*ptr)
        {
                if (*ptr == '\t' || *ptr == '\\' || *ptr == '\n' || *ptr == '\r')
                        toescape++;
 
                ptr++;
        }
 
        /* If we don't have to escape anything, simply return the input pointer */
        if (toescape == 0)
                return str;
 
        size = ptr - str + toescape + 1;
        result = calloc(1, size);
        optr = result;
        ptr = str;
 
        while (*ptr)
        {
                if ( *ptr == '\t' || *ptr == '\\' || *ptr == '\n' || *ptr == '\r' )
                        *optr++ = '\\';
 
                *optr++ = *ptr++;
        }
 
        *optr = '\0';
 
        return result;
}

Referenced by ShpLoaderGenerateSQLRowStatement().

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