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String io module for postgresql.
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Copyright (C) 1999, Massimo Dal Zotto <dz@cs.unitn.it>
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This software is distributed under the GNU General Public License
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either version 2, or (at your option) any later version.
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These output functions can be used as substitution of the standard text
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output functions to get the value of text fields printed in the format
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used for C strings. This allows the output of queries or the exported
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files to be processed more easily using standard unix filter programs
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like perl or awk.
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If you use the standard functions instead you could find a single tuple
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splitted into many lines and the tabs embedded in the values could be
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confused with those used as field delimters.
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My function translates all non-printing characters into corresponding
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esacape sequences as defined by the C syntax. All you need to reconstruct
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the exact value in your application is a corresponding unescape function
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like the string_input defined in the source code.
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Massimo Dal Zotto <dz@cs.unitn.it>
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