From d5a9fbf7123b65ca0eb01e2430be0c3fd2fc313a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Ted Trask <ttrask01@yahoo.com>
Date: Mon, 10 Nov 2008 19:30:58 +0000
Subject: Modified format to add escapemagiccharacter functions to escape Lua
 magic characters in a string.

git-svn-id: svn://svn.alpinelinux.org/acf/core/trunk@1587 ab2d0c66-481e-0410-8bed-d214d4d58bed
---
 lib/format.lua | 4 ++++
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)

diff --git a/lib/format.lua b/lib/format.lua
index b529470..92f5a62 100644
--- a/lib/format.lua
+++ b/lib/format.lua
@@ -13,6 +13,10 @@ function dostounix ( str )
 	return data
 end
 
+function escapemagiccharacters ( str )
+	return string.gsub(str, "[%(%)%.%%%+%-%*%?%[%]%^%$]", "%%%1")
+end
+
 -- search and remove all blank and commented lines from a string or table of lines
 -- returns a table to iterate over without the blank or commented lines
 
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