Craig's patch to the QuoteMeta function in pcrecpp.cc so that it escapes the

NUL character as backslash + 0 rather than backslash + NUL, because PCRE
doesn't support NULs in patterns.


git-svn-id: svn://vcs.exim.org/pcre/code/trunk@326 2f5784b3-3f2a-0410-8824-cb99058d5e15

1 files changed, 3 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/pcrecpp.h b/pcrecpp.h
index a4638e1..a87a816 100644
--- a/pcrecpp.h
+++ b/pcrecpp.h
@@ -620,6 +620,9 @@ class PCRECPP_EXP_DEFN RE {
   //           1.5-2.0?
   // may become:
   //           1\.5\-2\.0\?
+  // Note QuoteMeta behaves the same as perl's QuoteMeta function,
+  // *except* that it escapes the NUL character (\0) as backslash + 0,
+  // rather than backslash + NUL.
   static string QuoteMeta(const StringPiece& unquoted);