Recent snippets posted on Snipplr.com https://snipplr.com/ Sat, 13 Jun 2026 14:36:33 +0000 https://snipplr.com/view/26227/replacing-characters-with-escape-sequences <p>Another common task when working with strings is to replace a set of characters with a set of escape sequences. Sometimes the replacement is very easy - you only have to place a backslash (or another character) before every occurrence of an escaped character. Imagine the following scenario: you are building an RTF file and you want to insert a string into the file. The "{", "}", and "\" characters have a special meaning in RTF and, therefore, must be preceded with a backslash. The question is: what is the fastest way to replace each of the characters with a corresponding escape sequence?</p> Sun, 10 Jan 2010 22:45:51 UTC https://snipplr.com/view/26227/replacing-characters-with-escape-sequences