Escapes the special characters used for regular expressions
in @string, for instance "a.b*c" becomes "a\.b\*c". This
function is useful to dynamically generate regular expressions.
@string can contain nul characters that are replaced with "\0",
in this case remember to specify the correct length of @string
in @length.
Escapes the special characters used for regular expressions in @string, for instance "a.b*c" becomes "a\.b\*c". This function is useful to dynamically generate regular expressions.
@string can contain nul characters that are replaced with "\0", in this case remember to specify the correct length of @string in @length.