Have you tried in this way:

sprintf(StringBuf, "%s", OriginalString);

Tamas


On 13 May 2013 20:06, Harold Hallikainen <harold@hallikainen.org> wrote:

> I have a string, defined at run time, that includes standard printf escap=
e
> sequences (such as \t and \r). I'd like to change these back to tab and
> carriage return. I tried using sprintf(StringBuf,OriginalString), but thi=
s
> just copied OriginalString to StringBuf without expanding the escape
> sequences. I note that the "format string" is defined as const char, so I
> guess it is evaluated at compile time instead of run time (especially to
> deal with a variable number of % substitutions). So, is there a standard
> function to expand out the escape sequences in a run-time defined string?
> Or do I have to write my own?
>
> THANKS!
>
> Harold
>
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--=20
int main() { char *a,*s,*q; printf(s=3D"int main() { char *a,*s,*q;
printf(s=3D%s%s%s, q=3D%s%s%s%s,s,q,q,a=3D%s%s%s%s,q,q,q,a,a,q); }",
q=3D"\"",s,q,q,a=3D"\\",q,q,q,a,a,q); }
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