Allow any character in formspec strings with escape char

1 files changed, 16 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/src/util/string.h b/src/util/string.h
index 2f0264bd4..6c48adeb3 100644
--- a/src/util/string.h
+++ b/src/util/string.h
@@ -286,6 +286,22 @@ inline std::string wrap_rows(const std::string &from, u32 rowlen)
 	return to;
 }
 
+/*
+	Removes all \\ from a string that had been escaped (FormSpec strings)
+*/
+inline std::string unescape_string(std::string &s)
+{
+	std::string res;
+	
+	for (size_t i = 0; i <= s.length(); i++) {
+		if (s[i] == '\\')
+			i++;
+		res += s[i];
+	}
+	
+	return res;
+}
+
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